oil workers

Fuel queues are back to petrol stations in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos and other parts of the country. This is following the strike action declared by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) last week after the group threatened to embark on an...

As Nigerians continue to grapple with fuel scarcity following last week’s strike threat by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, another influential group in the oil industry says it is set to begin its strike from Monday. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff...

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has announced a suspension of its ceasefire with the federal government, threatening to resume attacks on oil assets. In a statement on Friday, Murdoch Agbinibo, the group’s spokesman, said unlike the 2016 attacks, this would be “brutish, brutal and bloody”. He...

Mobil Producing Nigeria has attributed the recent sack of some of its employees to the dwindled profitability in the company as well as the oil and gas sector globally in the outgoing year. A senior official of the company maintained that only 6% of its global workforce was affected by the...

The Federal Government and Oil workers meeting ended at a deadlock today. According to TVC news, the meeting is expected to continue tomorrow. Details soon...

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...