The National leadership of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) with deep frustration is grossly disappointed about the directive of Chevron Nigeria Limited to its Contractor, Cordeau Nigeria Limited to sack all its 32 workers for insisting on being NUPENG members. National President of NUPENG, Comrade Williams Akporeha at the weekend said, […]
National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu met on Friday in Lagos
As the country begins count down to the end of the year celebration, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has affirmed its willingness to work closely, with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to ensure a hitch-free products distribution across the country throughout the end of year festive period. National President […]
The National President of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, (NUPENG), Mr Williams Akporeha has vowed that they would fight against casualisation and anti-labour practice that has been threatening the survival of the union in the oil and gas sub-sector. Akporeha stated this during a media roundtable at the weekend in Lagos, where […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), yesterday suspended its proposed strike, after it reached an understanding with the federal government. Addressing journalists in Abuja, NUPENG president, comrade Williams Akporeha said the decision to suspend the strike was reached following the reinstatement of 89 NUPENG members sacked in CBS Deepsea in Port […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG, weekend, decried allegation by the Presidency that the National Assembly cut N11.5 billion from allocations to critical infrastructure like roads in the 2018 national budget. NUPENG in a statement in Abuja, insisted that cutting allocations meant for crucial and very critical infrastructural projects with huge […]
Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has assured the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it had no plan to embark on any strike action. PTD Chairman, Otunba Oladiti Salman, who spoke with the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ugbamadu, on Friday, […]
Labour: Enough of orchestrated hardships Nigerians are now groaning in pains as fuel scarcity continues to bite harder, Nigerians are finding it extremely difficult to move from one city to another. Selling of fuel at black market continued unabated as a litre now goes for between N250 and N350 at petrol stations while four litre […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, expressed surprise at the worsening fuel scarcity across the country, despite assurances by the Federal Government to flood filling stations with products. The union implored the federal government, including Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to explain what is […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has attributed the ongoing scarcity of fuel across the country on a cabal in the downstream sector. The group said that tanker drivers were not on strike. In a release yesterday, said its members were not responsible for the present shortage of petroleum products being […]
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, has said that he had engaged investors to establish a refinery in Akwa Ibom State. In a press statement signed by the General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, the NNPC GMD, revealed this during PENGASSAN’s Triennial Retreat/Synergy workshop, […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to sweep under the carpet the feud between Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, and Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director (NNPC) over alleged $25 billion contract scam and other issues bordering on insubordination, and appointments in […]
Petroleum Tanker Drivers’ branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, (NUPENG), has backed the embattled Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru for reviving the depots owned by the corporation, which have been abandoned across the country. National Chairman of the union, Comrade Salmon Oladiti in […]
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers’ branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, (NUPENG) has described the ongoing supremacy battle between the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Dr Maikanti Baru, as deeply political, therefore calling for caution. Kachikwu in a […]
……Banks worried over marketers’ huge loans Total collapse of the petroleum downstream sector may be imminent, as both the Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Senior Staff Association (PENGASAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have concluded arrangements to embark on indefinite strike action due to the backlog of salaries owed […]
…says past restructuring efforts failed The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has condemned in totality, the move to whittle down the regulatory powers of the Nigerian Petroleum Investment Management Services Limited (NAPIMS) in the new petroleum policy approved by the Federal Executive Council, reported in a major news tabloid on August […]
Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG) says it will ground the petroleum sector if the Federal Government allows Oando to take over the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC). NUPENG further advised the federal government not to ignore the recent resolution by the Senate against the agreement with Oando. The President of […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have kicked against the Nigeria senate’s proposed plan to increase with N5, fuel price, which will make the price of a litre petrol to sold above =N=145.00. According to separate statements released […]
Sequel to the 5-week intensive training of tanker drivers by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), The National Chairman, Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch, Comrade Sulaimon.A.Oladiti has assured road users that there will be a significant reduction of tanker accidents in the country. Speaking to journalists after the training, Oladiti confirmed […]
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Thursday ordered stoppage of loading activities at all Total Nig. Ltd., depots nationwide over the termination of workers’ appointments. This is according to a statement signed by Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union and made available to newsmen in Lagos. According […]