COVID-19: NNPC directs non-management staff to work from home
In compliance with the federal government’s directive on the COVID -19 pandemic, the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has directed all office-based staff below management cadre across all its formations to work remotely from home with effect from Tuesday.
According to a statement by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, the directive which was conveyed to the NNPC workforce via a message signed by the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari.
It directed all NNPC strategic business units to activate their business continuity plans immediately, to ensure minimal disruption to operations while protecting staff from exposure to the COVID-19.
‘’The NNPC leadership, since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, has been providing daily enlightenment to staff on how to keep themselves and their families safe from infection.
‘’Among others, it has ensured a compulsory temperature check on all staff and visitors, frequent hand wash and the use of hand sanitizers at points of entry into the NNPC Towers and all other locations of the corporation and the maintenance of social distancing at all times,’’ the statement added.
Meanwhile, the NNPC has condoled with the family of Suleiman Achimugu who passed on in the early hours of Monday from the virus.
The corporation disclosed that the deceased who was the managing director of the then Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a downstream subsidiary of the NNPC, went into self-isolation upon return from the United Kingdom on March 10.
‘’Consequent upon reporting palpable symptoms of the coronavirus disease, the NNPC medical services team collaborated with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Public Health Department to ensure that all laid down protocol were followed in handling the case of Achimugu, who retired on July 24, 2009 as group general manager, renewable energy division of NNPC,’’ it added.
