NUPENG, PENGASSAN begin indefinite three day nationwide strike

Oil workers under the umbrella  Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has  embarked on an indefinite nationwide strike , Monday 15th December‎, 2014.

The strike, according NUPENG and PENGASSAN, is to protest government’s inability to carried out turn around maintenance on the country’s refineries and to reduce pump prices of petroleum products in line with the drop in global prices of crude oil.

The nationwide strike  suddenly grounded business activities in Abuja  as Long queues resurfaced at fuel stations  with few stations seen selling products at inflated prices. But the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) assured that the three-day strike embarked upon by NUPENG and PENGASSAN‎ will not dislocate the robust distribution and sale of fuel to members of the public.