Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has refuted social media post by one Jomo Iroha, that its President, Francis Johnson, issued a statement over the sale of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The Association in a statement by Lumumba Okugbawa, its General Secretary, insisted that at no time did PENGASSAN […]
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called on companies operating in the nation’s oil and gas sector to sufficiently update their workforce on trending global technology. This, the union stated would adequately prepare them on how to handle its effects. A statement quoted the PENGASSAN President, Mr. Francis Olabode […]
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The Oil workers unions have reassured the Federal government that its members would not go on strike over the threat of Depot owners to shut down services over issues on payment of outstanding subsidy claims. The Unions are the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff […]
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Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Association, PENGASSAN, have threatened to shut down the nation’s Petroleum industry of alleged plans to sack thousands of workers from its operations nationwide. Leaders of NUPENG and PENGASSAN have already directed their members nationwide to prepare to withdraw their […]
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers have expressed worry over the powers conferred on the proposed Nigeria Petroleum Regulatory Commission under the Petroleum Industry Bill. The oil unions, in a joint statement on three of the bills constituting the PIB, said […]
Read More The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to make it mandatory for international oil companies operating in the country to build refineries. In his May Day 2018 message, PENGASSAN’s President, Olabode Johnson, said there should be a legal framework that would compel the IOCs to refine […]
Read More Nigeria’s major oil union will suspend a nationwide strike it began on Monday, its general secretary said, adding that members had what they wanted from a dispute resolution with the government and an oil company. “The strike has not been suspended for now but we are 100 percent sure it will be suspended,” said Lumumba […]
Read More One of Nigeria’s largest oil unions launched a nationwide strike on Monday over the laying off of its workers, its general secretary said. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), whose members mainly work in the upstream oil industry, started the industrial action after talks with government agencies ended in deadlock, […]
Read More The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has decried plans by the federal government to enforce the no-work, no-pay clause. Speaking in an interview, Francis Olabode Johnson, the National President of PENGASSAN said no union worth its salt would instigate workers to go on strike without following the laid down procedures. […]
Read More Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has rejected the plan by both the Federal and state governments to tax pensions, gratuities and terminal benefits of workers in the country. The umbrella body for senior staff in the oil and gas sector vowed to resist the implementation of the plan, contending that […]
Read More The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has alleged that oil marketers may have concluded plans to sack their workers if the Federal Government fails to settle the ₦720 billion debt owed the marketers, it was learnt. PENGASSAN said this in a statement on Sunday, adding that the government’s settlement of the […]
Read More The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) group, has warned against outright sale of the energy sector to private investors at this time of the country’s economic downturn, saying it would not serve any good purpose. The group, instead advocated for urgent diversification of the economy outside […]
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