Comrade Francis Bunu Abi, President of the Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has celebrated Nigerians on New Year Day, praising their strength in the face of 2025’s challenges Insecurity, hardship, unemployment, and rising costs didn’t break them, he said, crediting Nigerians’ resilience, endurance, and faith.
“My fellow Nigerians stood firm, weathering socio-economic storms that ravaged the country,” Comrade Bunu noted, adding that these qualities define Nigerians in tough times.
The fierce Maritme Labour leader Comrade Bunu, says there’s no other way Nigerans could have survived the year gone, if not for their resilience, thoroughness, endurance, comportment, hope and faith, which has been the characteristics of Nigerans at any difficult situation, in tumoil, or disaster, as the case may be, they have always found recipe from their positive attributes of life. That’s every Nigerian, I know.
The pragmatic labour strategist of the Maritme Workers’ Union, encouraged Nigerans to continue with what he describes of them as one of the “Strongest People” in the world, who can survive in any situation to achieve in the most difficult atmosphere to continue to be what they are, praying that in the Newyear 2026, all they have passed through will become a situation of joy and a success story of every individual Nigerian which will come in various manifestations.
He urged the federal government of Nigeria to urgently look into the plights of Nigerians, saying that Nigerians have suffered so much lack in the years back, therefore, the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR must begin to reflect of Nigerans as we sail into 2026, as this is the only way “my fellow country men” can be compensated for their daily tears of hardship, which they suffered in diverse dimensions.
The foremost Maritme Labour leader in the country, Comrade Bunu also says that Nigerians, having passed through so much tribulation in the country; he also wished the federal government will not take Nigerans for granted for their “thick skin” in surviving the tumultuous situations in the country.
On his final note, the MWUN PG, reiterated that Nigerans don’t have another country the can call their own, but Nigeria; therefore, we must all join hands together to make Nigerians and Nigeria better in the years ahead so that in peace, unity and faith, we can conquer our fears of living in harmony; wishing all Nigerans a prosperous Happy Newyear, enmeshed in good quality life.
