The PTD members, in a statement on Sunday, described the plot to remove their leaders as “an enterprise in futility.”
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The union stated its position in a letter it addressed and sent to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, made the pronouncement while briefing newsmen after a closed-door meeting with the National Association of Road Transport Owners and Petroleum Tanker Drivers on Monday in Abuja
It said: “We will not go back on the restriction order of heavy trucks plying the state-owned roads, which took effect on the 15th September, 2020.”
The South-West Chairman of NUPENG, Tayo Aboyeji, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday
In the letter dated January 30, 2018 and signed by the Director, Institute of Arts Management and Professional Studies, Prof. Eze C. Nwauba, the PTD boss will be bestowed with the said doctoral award in Organizational Leadership at an event holding on April 4h, 2018 at Accra Technical University, Ghana.
A statement issued in Abuja by the NNPC Spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu, said Baru expressed concern over the possible effects the ultimatum would have on products supply and distribution chain in the country
A statement by the PTD Chairman, Salimon Oladiti, said it was very ”mischievous and unfounded” the news circulating in the social media that the PTD Branch of NUPENG issued a three-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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.
Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the Chairman in South-West Zone of the union, made the denial in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
In a statement on Sunday, the PTD distanced itself from the arrest of Ubah on Friday by the DSS
The arrest was confirmed by the DSS in a statement
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspension of the strike followed the intervention of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru
Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria who monitored the strike in Lagos observed that all tank farms in Apapa were empty and without the usual loading of products associated with depots
Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of NUPENG, made the assertion on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the NUPENG South-West Chairman, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the ongoing National Safety Training Programme in Lagos
Though the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation blamed it on the strike action embarked upon by members of the National Association of Road Transport Owners and the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, the scarcity of petrol is coming at the expiration of the three days ultimatum given by the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria to the Federal Government