Tag: NUPENG

Labour, Oil Workers on Fact-Finding Mission Affirm PH Refinery Operational Status

Efe Wellington

‘Like a pack of cards,’ after visit, NLC, NUPENG speak on the earlier rumours that the refinery was not operating A recent fact-finding visit by labour leaders has dispelled the uncertainties surrounding the operational status of the newly revived old Port Harcourt Refinery, with a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day. The unions have confirmed that the refinery is running efficiently and have called on the Federal Government to ensure the facility remains operational and does not fall into disuse again. If there was any significant take-away from the facility…

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Work with NNPCL to Sanitize Fuel Supply, CSOs To IPMAN, NUPENG, Others

Aliyu Aliyu

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Good Governance, a key stakeholder in the Nigerian oil and gas industry has called on oil marketers, distributors to partner with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd to ensure seamless delivery of petroleum product across the country which is crucial to the country’s quest for energy security. Platforms Africa reports that the CSOs also expressed excitement with the manner the NNPCL is managing fuel supply across the country despite huge limitations. The coalition leaders said these on Tuesday in a communique at the…

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Stop Calling Us Public Goats, PTD Chides NUPENG General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale

Ganiyu Amodu

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG has taken a swipe at the General Secretary of the Union, Afolabi Olawale, for calling its members “public goats”. Afolabi had reportedly, during an interview that he granted a national television a few weeks ago, categorised the PTD members as public goats. National Chairman of PTD and his deputy, Comrade Lucky Osesua and Comrade Dayyabu Garga, in a jointly signed press statement, said on Tuesday that incessant use of derogatory phrases and words against their members at Unit, Zonal, and National levels…

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Workers Shut Down Owerri Airport, Oil, Electricity Employees Down Tools

Precious Ibekwe

Also, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed its members to “ensure total shutdown of all services of NUPENG members in Imo State.”   National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has announced the shutdown of Owerri airport over the attack by Imo State Government agents on members who were attending NLC state congress on Tuesday. The announcement by the union followed a directive by the national leadership of the NLC. Comrade Ocheme Aba, General Secretary of NUATE, in a letter dated March 8 informed…

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No strike, protest over fuel price, power tarrif hike – Nigerian oil workers union, NUPENG declares 

Efe Wellington

  Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) has declared that there would be no industrial action or protest over recent hike in price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol and the electricity tariff increase in the Africa’s biggest economy. National President of NUPENG, Comrade Wiliams Akporeha, and South West Chairman of the union, Tayo Aboyeji, who declared this in separate phone interviews with Platforms  Africa, stated that at no time did the oil workers union issue any threat to go on strike over the…

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Chevron parleys union, contractor as 175 Nigerian oil workers lose jobs

Efe Wellington

  United States oil supermajor, Chevron, has declared that it has started engaging the oil workers’ union and its independent contractor company who sacked 175 staff hitherto working for it on Chevron’s platform in Nigeria. The union known as National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) issued a seven-day warning strike threat over the sack of the staff and in a reaction to enquiry made by Platforms Africa on the 7-day strike, General Manager- Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Nigeria Limited, ESIMAJE BRIKINN, insisted that the Contractor…

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