Tag: National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE)

Public Display of Ignorance by New Power Minister Worrisome – Workers

Abibat Babalola

    Adelabu on media frenzy instead of addressing salient issues – NUEE   The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has chided the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, over his conduct since being sworn in. In a statement on Monday signed by the acting general secretary of NUEE, Dominic Igwebike, the union said Adelabu had yet to reach out to stakeholders since assuming office, but had been threatening electricity workers. READ ALSO: Veteran Nollywood actor, Suara is dead Missing Intestines: Group Calls For Independent Probe By MDCN Nigeria Declares…

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DisCos Lured Govt, Collected N2trn After Privatisation – Electricity Workers

Ganiyu Amodu

Take It Back, NUEE Seeks Reversal Of Power Asset Sale from ‘hustlers’ and ‘hawks’   Electricity workers in Nigeria have alleged that new owners of power assets, whom they described as ‘hustlers’ and ‘hawks,’ have lured the government and so far collected N2 trillion naira in the name of interventions. Rising under the auspices of National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, they urged the Nigerian Government to reverse the privatisation of the nation’s power sector, alleging that new owners of the privatised companies have contributed poorly to the power sector.…

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Electricity Workers Suspend Strike as Industry Loses N2.3bn In Hours

ADEOLA YUSUF

. “We have been asked to suspend the action but we won wait for six months to resume the strike if the government fails to fulfill promises made,” Ajaero declares . Grid Or Diesel: Between Pharaoh army and the red sea metaphor for Businesses in Nigeria   The electricity workers have called off strike its strike that crashed the National grid to zero megawatt (0MW) and surged the industry and business losses to N2.3 billion, Platforms Africa reports. Head of the workers’ Union, Joe Ajaero who announced the suspension after…

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JUST IN: Blackout As Electricity Workers Shut Transmission Stations

ADEOLA YUSUF

“As of 11.46 this morning it is believed that about 60 percent of the stations have been shut down. The action could be total by the end of the day as NUEE strike continues.”     Electricity workers on Wednesday made good their threat to shut down transmission stations across the country Platforms Africa reports that rising under the auspices of National Union Of Electricity Employees (NUEE), the workers at about 10 am on Wednesday began to shut down the transmission stations thereby plunging the nation into partial blackout.  The action could…

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