The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has declared a nationwide strike beginning from today.

The strike which will affect the flow of petrol to filling stations, has shut down seven crude flow stations in the Niger Delta, a union official said on Wednesday.

The strike is in protest over pay and job losses. NUPENG is one of several labour unions that have criticised oil companies for sacking workers in the last few months.

“Filling stations, petrol tankers and all NUPENG members are involved,” Cogent Ojobo, NUPENG’s Warri zonal chairman, said.
The union said the strike would last for three days and involve around 10,000 workers.

Ojobo said union officials would hold talks with the labour minister in the capital, Abuja, later on Wednesday. “If the issues at stake are resolved and a communique signed, the strike would be called off,” he said.

He also said workers had gone on strike at seven crude oil flow stations in and around Oleh, a town in Delta state, which is in the Niger Delta.

“Seven flow stations belonging to NPDC were shut by the workers and they are still shut now,” Ojobo said. He also said the workers, who are employed by contractors, say they have not been paid. The flow stations were shut on Tuesday.
The Labour ministry spokesman was not immediately available to comment.

Nigeria has been hit hard by a slump in crude oil prices in the past two years, which helped to push the country into recession. A wave of militant attacks in the southern Niger Delta oil hub throughout 2016 has hampered production.
Ndu Ughamadu, a spokesman for Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the state-run oil company NNPC, said checks were being made to establish whether the Niger Delta flow stations had been affected.

Last week, NUPENG held a strike at Total’s fuel depots in a protest over sackings, but it was suspended after one day after an agreement was reached. No details have emerged about the deal.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/nupeng-declares-nationwide-strike-shuts-seven-flow-stations/

Help us Christ.

Na today? Make dem wait make I reach house. So much labour unrest under dis buhari but they r quick to assign huge monies to yeye projects n misplaced priorities.

Thank God i know fuel Station Managers
I dont know what isnwrong with this Selfish Leaders of ours. Make me Nigeria President and see ur change inm1secs

.my Tenure will be 1 AGENDA PER YEAR

WILL SOLVE LIGHT PROBLEM FIRST
Imagining when i travelled out to Ghana. Life was more sweet because light was steady

Help ask our Dear Presido. If he had faced Light Issues in the Country by now am sure it will hv bcome past issues.

Let me tell our Presido how to solve light pro challenges

Invite a Company thats into Solar panel Manucfactuing into Nigeria let them train us then we will start producing it
Hence we can forget Gas issues.....we hv all it takes to make Solar energy comes into realization in our Country.

yemmybx:
Help us Christ.

If i be Christ i wont help at all

Already affecting cooking gas

Nigeria should just shut down. Let the citizens be shared to other countries

Good that we are out of festive period b4 dis end time strike.

Wetin we no go see for this kind country.

Since wen people started trekking wen Buhari won...i knew this trekking dy send wrong signal!!!

Now tfare go increase now...everybody go start trek, i just dy pity my shoes

He go trek so te...he go enter road begin dey trek d day wey i no go go out

So sad.

TANTUMERGO007:

If i be Christ i wont help at all

Thank God you're not Christ

They should channel thier grievance to those blowing up pipelines and not the oil companies because as it is oil companies can't give jobs they do not have

Again? To whom it may concern Please address this issue we need to move forward.

TANTUMERGO007:

If i be Christ i wont help at all

If man be God. Thank God that man is not God!

PMB is up to the task

again?

omogin:
Nigeria should just shut down. Let the citizens be shared to other countries

which country u go like make dem deploy u to?

General Buhari, if any of them is a federal employ and goes on strike, please terminate their employment with extreme prejudice.

Then look into the salary situation.

Buhari should sell Nigeria or deploy us to various countries if one country can't buy us all.
What kind of incompetent government is this? Problem everywhere...

starwar:
which country u go like make dem deploy u to?

I'm sure that it's not South Sudan

Here in Panama u don't try this shiiiiiit

The government can't afford to have another fuel crisis on their hands with the present economic situation.

Labour ministry should wade into this asap.

omogin:
Nigeria should just shut down. Let the citizens be shared to other countries

...Lols u don vex....dat won't solve the problem oooo

Has this been reported to buhari

whaat

EgunMogaji:


I'm sure that it's not South Sudan

na u go do the deployment?

yemmybx:
If man be God. Thank God that man is not God!

And what has god been doing about it?

Till the curse dries up in them oil wells

And majority believed Buhari would cause a turnaround change.

When I saw the headline, I knew it's from Vanguard.

They sensationalize news just to spite