The National Secretary, PTD, Comrade Humble Obinna Power, revealed the planned protest.
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It accused some agencies of the Federal Government of lack of sincerity in implementing the agreement reached last October.
The strike was called off on Monday evening, hours after it commenced as contained in a statement
The South-West Chairman of NUPENG, Tayo Aboyeji, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday
Tayo Aboyeji, Chairman, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Lagos Zonal Council, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that all the tanker drivers had been turned back to their respective stations
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers to halt their planned strike over a labour dispute involving Chevron Nigeria Limited management and the staff.
Trailers parked indiscriminately over a long stretch of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway have been causing massive traffic gridlock on the road for several days now
The position of the union was contained in a statement by its National Chairman, Otunba Salmon Akanni Oladiti
Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Thursday after a National Executive Council meeting, Igwe Achese, the NUPENG President, said the strike was inevitable because of the N3 billion terminal benefits allegedly owed some sacked oil sector workers
Some filling stations have recorded a slight increase of buyers from Wednesday night till about mid-day on Thursday following the violence that erupted in Apapa, Lagos State over the killing of a container driver by a policeman.
In a statement on Sunday, the PTD distanced itself from the arrest of Ubah on Friday by the DSS
Announcing the suspension of the strike, the NUPENG National President, Igwe Achese, said with the intervention of Kachikwu and Baru, NNPC “has done so much to ensure efficient supply and distribution of petroleum products across the country, hence, the strike is hereby suspended”
The Chairman of Association, Ubong Isong, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Uyo on Monday
Korodo told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the rehabilitation had eased the movement of tankers plying the road
Olawale made the statement on Tuesday in Abuja during public hearing organised by the House of Representatives to address the menace and reduce future occurrences
George made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lagos at the ongoing national training for tanker drivers, organised by Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
Ughamadu made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Abuja
NUPENG’s President, Igwe Achese, called of the strike at a reconciliatory stakeholders meeting called at the instance of Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige
The workers resumed after suspending their protest on Thursday evening, following a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the management of Total and the labour contractor, Jomog Nigeria Limited
The Acting Chairman of the ULC, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview in Lagos that the union could no longer tolerate the inhuman treatment of Arik’s management to workers