Tag: PENGASSAN
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Special report: Unending queues at filling stations despite PENGASSAN’s botched strike
By Olaotan Falade …Nigerians groan as scarcity bites harder …product now sells for N180 – N185 per litre …as black marker sellers resurfaces on major highways Most Nigerians were relieved on Monday when news filtered in that the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has suspended its planned nationwide strike scheduled…
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Fuel scarcity: Why we suspended strike – PENGASSAN
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, yesterdayy announced the suspension of its planned nationwide strike after Neconde Energy Limited, an indigenous oil company, agreed to recall a disengaged staff member of the union. The National President of PENGASSAN, Francis Johnson, who announced the suspension of the strike, said it was…
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Fuel Scarcity: Succour as PENGASSAN suspends planned strike
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has suspended its planned nationwide strike scheduled to commence today. The decision to suspend the strike comes on the heels of the intervention of the Director of the State Security Service, SSS, Lawan Daura, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige and the…
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Ngige pleads with PENGASSAN to Shelve planned strike action
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has appealed to members the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ( P E N G A S S A N ) to shelve its planned strike scheduled to begin on Monday, December 18 in the spirit of the conciliation brokered between it…
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Bleak yuletide as PENGASSAN insists on nationwide strike Monday
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Saturday insisted that its planned industrial action will commence on Monday. The group however, noted that it was ready to discuss with the government and other concerned organisations on the strike. According to PENGASSAN, nothing has changed since it issued a statement to announce…
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Neconde: SAN faults seven-day ultimatum by PENGASSAN to recall sacked employees
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Uchechukwu Val Obi, has faulted the seven-day ultimatum given by Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to the Federal Government to direct Neconde Energy Limited to recall its sacked employees or risk an industrial action. Obi, who is the counsel to Neconde Energy Limited, argued…
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Fuel scarcity: More worries as PENGASSAN threatens nationwide strike
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to address injustice and lawlessness in the oil and gas sector companies or face a nationwide strike from December 18. The General Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Mr Lumumba Okugbawa,…
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$26bn contract scam: NUPENG, PENGASSAN declare support for GMD, Baru – Official
Unions in the oil and gas sector on Monday pledged support for the ‘transformation stride’ of the Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, made the pledge…
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Nigeria will lose N150bn daily should PENGASSAN, NUPENG embark on proposed strike – LCCI tells FG
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), has warned that the economy would lose an estimated N150 billion daily, if the proposed strike by PENGASSAN and NUPENG is not averted. The Director-General of LCCI, Mr Muda Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Monday in Lagos. Yusuf said that it would not…
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N800bn debt: Fuel scarcity looms as PENGASAN, NUPENG, others threaten strike
The nation might soon experience another fuel scarcity crisis as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Senior Staff Association (PENGASAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have served notice of a nationwide indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s inability to settle debts of over N800 billion owed oil marketers. The…