Tag: PENGASSAN
-
PENGASSAN, NUPENG announce date to commence disruption of oil, gas operations nationwide
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN), alongside the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to disrupt oil and gas operations across the country by Sunday, August 16, should the Federal Government fail to pay their salaries, Friday. The protesting senior oil workers commenced the peaceful protests on…
-
Multi-billion contract fraud rocks PTI
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, Professor Sunny Iyuke has been accused of involvement in a contract fraud amounting to N5.8 billion. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Audu Oshiokhamele, Chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Effurun branch made the accusation. The fraud busted by the…
-
BREAKING: PENGASSAN suspends planned strike as Wike retraces step
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN has suspended its planned strike which was to take effect midnight of Sunday, April 19. This follows the release of 21 oil workers by the Rivers State Government who were arrested for violating Coronavirus lockdown in the State. In a statement signed by PENGASSAN…
-
BREAKING: PENGASSAN orders suspension of crude oil production over Wike’s arrest of Exxonmobil workers
Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Sunday directed members to shut operations and all activities at the nation’s oil rigs and export terminals from midnight over the detention of 21 offshore members by the Rivers State Government since Thursday. THe association revealed in a statement on Sunday that by midnight today…
-
PTI reacts to PENGASSAN’s corruption, contract racketeering allegations
The Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) has debunked corruption allegations leveled against it by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). In a statement circulated to newsmen Monday, and signed by the deputy director, Public Affairs, Brown Ukanefimoni, the PTI management warned the perpetrators that such allegations are tantamount to slander and…
-
Disregard IMF’s advice on fuel subsidy removal, NUPENG, PENGASSAN tells FG
Workers in the oil and gas sector on Sunday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to shun any counsel that would destabilise or cause chaos in the economy. The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) gave the advice in a statement in Lagos. The…
-
Its time to appoint substantive petroleum minister, PENGASSAN tells Buhari
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a substantive minister for the petroleum sector in his second term. Mr Francis Johnson, PENGASSAN President made the appeal while fielding questions from journalists on Friday in Lagos on the association’s National Executive Council (NEC) held on…
-
Subsidy debt: Depot owners suspend shutdown of operations, give 5-day grace
The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) has suspended its planned shutdown of depots across the country from loading petroleum products effective from 12-midnight on Sunday, Dec. 9. The suspension directive was conveyed in a statement issued by DAPPMA Executive Secretary, Mr Olufemi Adewole, at about 1.20 a.m. on Monday in Lagos and made…
-
PENGASSAN wants FG to address environmental pollution in Niger Delta
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called on the Federal Government to curb the activities of illegal refineries and subsequent environmental pollution in Niger Delta region. Mr Fortune Obi, the National Public Relations Officer of the Association, made this call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…