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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Saturday lamented that there is no single drop of kerosene in any of the private depots and that of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Lagos. The National Chairman, Surface Tank Kerosene Peddlers (SUTAKEP)...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Friday shut down the lubricant section of French oil giant, Total over allegations of anti-labour practices. The South-West Chairman of NUPENG, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) members would begin a three-day nationwide warning strike by Jan. 9 2017, against the anti-labour practice of International Oil Companies (IOCs). The South-West chairman of the union, Alhaji Tokunbo, told the News Agency of...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to go on a three-day warning strike if workers' welfare is not addressed by oil and gas companies. NUPENG President, Igwe Achese, said the union had given the federal government a 21-day ultimatum to intervene in...

Nigeria may witness another round of fuel scarcity as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has threatened to resume its suspended strike if the federal government refuses to enforce the implementation of an agreement reached among the tripartite partners...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers says the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation has fixed N150 per litre as the official depot price of kerosene. Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers says the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation has fixed N150 per litre as the official depot price of kerosene. Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in...

Some form of confusion has emerged over the planned strike of oil workers in the country, Channels reports. Mr Tokunbo Korodo, the South West Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), said a meeting oil workers are supposed to hold with FG today has been...

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has threatened to shut the nation’s oil sector over alleged anti-labour practices by employers, handing down a seven day ultimatum to government to call the affected employers to order. The senior staff trade union in a...

As the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has ordered owners of filling stations in Bayelsa and Rivers states to shut down operations and join its ongoing strike, residents of the two states may face scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol. According to PUNCH, the...

Labour leaders in the country are meeting today to decide on a possible protest against the increase in the price of petrol. President Muhamamdu Buhari had on Wedsneday raised the price of PMS from N86.50 to a maximum of N145 per litre. The new policy allows marketers to import petrol and sell...

The Lagos State Zonal Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is responsible for teh country's fuel scarcity. Mr Tokunbo Korodo was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with the leaders of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the end of the meeting, the...

Labour unions in Nigeria’s oil sector, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have called off their strike with immediate effect. The unions, yeserday shut offices of Nigerian National Petroleum...

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, insisted that there would be a total shut down of Imo State once the 14-day ultimatum issued to the state government to recall the 3000 sacked workers and tackle their unpaid salaries and other benefits expires. The Imo State government is alleged to...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has moved to prevent the sacking of over 18,500 workers at oil companies to extend to Nigeria. A statement by its President, Mr. Igwe Achese, insisted that the union was worried and concerned about the purported sack threat of...

Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) on Monday says that petrol would soon be available in filling stations across the country considering improvement on loading of petroleum at the depots in Lagos. He observed that Nigerians would...