The News Agency of Nigeria reports that PENGASSAN blocked the entrance to General Electric office on Victoria Island, Lagos from 6am
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PENGASSAN argued that the international community would perceive Nigeria as a country which does not honour its promises as well as one that does not take its call for foreign investments, led by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, seriously
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
PENGASSAN described the plan to sell the national assets as a self-destructive move to Nigeria
The strike was called off after a meeting with the Federal Government by the oil workers’ union, which ended in the wee hours of Wednesday
The unions meeting with the Federal Government delegation are the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Union of Petroleum Natural Gas Workers
The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, met with Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, on Wednesday
The General Secretary of the union, Bayo Olowoshile, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that only domestic refining would end crises in the oil and gas sector
The Chairman, Petroleum Resources Committee (Upstream), Rep. Muraina Adebola, condemned the absence of the invitees, adding that the committees would not allow strike to cripple the nation’s oil and gas sector
Wogu made the call while speaking with newsmen on the ongoing strike by the oil and gas sectors
Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of NUPENG, revealed the union’s position
The management called on members of the public not to engage in panic buying, assuring further that plans were on top gear to address the situation
According to him, casualisation and contract employment for jobs that should ordinarily be permanent and pensionable in nature has continued unabated in the oil and gas sector in the country
On deregulation, Comrade Ogun condemned government’s surreptitious moves to further increase the prices of petroleum products under the guise of deregulation, reiterating PENGASSAN’s long standing position that deregulation could not be import-driven and that the legal foundation and appropriate environment must be in place before the government engages all stakeholders on the issue
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