THE crisis rocking the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Worker (NUPENG) has worsened as Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have embarked on a nationwide protest. The drivers have threatened to breakaway from NUPENG unless National President Williams Akporeha and General secretary Afoloabi Olawale, resign. This was contained in …
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Abuja Court Remands 13 NUPENG Ex-leaders In Kuje Prison
THE High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that 13 members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) be remanded in Kuje prison over alleged attempted murder of the national president of NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, and two …
Read More »Ex-NUPENG General Secretary, Frank Kokori, Struggles For Life In Delta Hospital
FORMER General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Frank Kokori, has been admitted for kidney related ailment at a private hospital in Warri, Delta State. Kokori, who struggled to speak to journalists on his sick bed, with medics attending to him, said he had …
Read More »NUPENG Writes Sanwo-Olu, Threatens Shutdown Over Harassment
The Lagos State branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers have written to the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to check the activities of persons it described as unscrupulous elements harassing its members. The letter, dated October 28, 2022, said the union was deeply …
Read More »Why we suspend strike action in Lagos, NUPENG
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, Workers has suspended its strike in Lagos State. This was contained in a “joint communique issued by the Lagos State Government and NUPENG” on Monday. The communique was jointly signed by the Lagos Commissioner of Energy and Mineral Resources, Olalere Odusote, …
Read More »FG working hard to relieve Nigerians’ pains,says Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has said it is keenly aware of the difficulties that Nigerians are currently facing over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor power supply, and that it is working round the clock to provide the relief for the citizenry. ”As a government that was propelled into office by …
Read More »Blackout, fuel crisis loom as workers shut down NNPC
Nigeria is on the verge of another fuel crisis and a nationwide blackout of unimaginable proportion as workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, shut down the activities of the corporation nationwide over the unbundling exercise. The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas …
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