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Mkpoikana Udoma Port Harcourt — Organised labour under the auspices of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has expressed…
OpeOluwani Akintayo 03 December 2018, Sweetcrude, Lagos — Oil marketers in the country have issued a 7-day notice to the Federal…
“Based on the agreement reached at the meeting with the DSS, NUPENG resolved after an emergency meeting of the National Administrative Council (NAC) in Abuja to suspend the 15-day ultimatum issued the Federal government in order to pave way for social dialogue to settle the nagging problems.”
BUA said the governor conducted “a gestapo-style forceful shutdown of that mine despite a subsisting court pronouncement that the Mine be allowed to operate”.
It was observed that some filling stations the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and its environs, were shut on Sunday, while the few that sold petrol had very long queues that spilled onto the roads.
“Those are laptop militants; they don’t exist. Four of them will sit down in their houses and be issuing threats. These threats have existed since November 2016 when we met with Mr. President at the Villa. Some of these faceless boys issued the same threat and since then, they have been issuing threats.”
“NERC agreed that the N50,000 penalty was not enough and promised to look into the matter and report back in the coming week,” the document stated.
He said Capital Oil has admitted to diverting 84.89 million litres of petroleum products belonging to NNPC without the corporation’s approval adding that there was no basis to question the creditworthiness of the company.
“The union is, therefore, issuing a notice to withdraw its services any moment from now in solidarity with the affected workers if the unresolved payment of salaries and entitlements of these workers are not settled,” the statement read.