COVID-19: NNPC directs non-Management office-based staff to work from home

In compliance with the Federal Government’s directive on the COVID-19, the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has ordered all office-based staff below Management cadre across all its formations to work remotely from home with effect from Tuesday (today).
A statement in Abuja by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, said the directive, which was conveyed to the NNPC workforce via a message signed by the National Oil Company’s Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, 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 sanitiser at points of entry into the its headquarters in Abuja and all other locations of the corporation and the maintenance of social distancing at all times.