NUPENG & PENGASSAN Call off Strike

After meeting with the junior Minister of Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, NUPENG and PENGASSAN have reportedly called off their one-day-old strike. The unions had embarked on strike following the misinterpretation of the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). After meeting with Kachikwu, the unions decided to sheath their swords and get back to work.

Kachikwu assured them that there was no unbundling of NNPC, stressing that, what was happening was a restructuring. Oil workers feared that many of them would be sacked if NNPC was unbundled and they immediately resorted to a strike, but they have been reassured that their jobs are safe at least for now.