Precarious Work Destroying Workers’ Lives in Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry
Precarious work destroying workers’ lives in Nigerian oil and gas industry Contract work and casualization of the oil and gas industry is having a dire impact on trade unions and the lives of workers in Nigeria, according to IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliates in African’s largest oil producing country. Some 25 representatives from IndustriALL affiliates, the National […]
NUPENG Holds Emergency NAC Meeting, Applauds President Akporeha for Entrenching Institutional Reforms & Progress
Members of the enlarged National Administrative Council (NAC) of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG) had on Saturday (Sept 29, 2018) lauded the style of leadership of the Union’s President, Comrade Williams Akporeha, saying he has made a lot of institutional reforms since he officially assumed office on April 6, 2018. NAC […]
NNPC Urges NUPENG, PENGASSAN To Halt Planned Strike
The Group Managing Director (GMD), NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers to halt their planned strike over a labour dispute involving Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) management and the staff. The unions are National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). […]
Akinlaja Tasks Govt, Stakeholders To Resuscitate Orile-Iganmu Parking Space for Petroleum Tankers
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources Downstream, Hon Joseph Iranola Akinlaja has admonished government at all levels as well as stakeholders in the oil and gas sector to urgently invest, resuscitate and develop the abandoned Orile parking space for petroleum tankers in order to reduce traffic gridlock in Apapa, Orile, and Mile-2 corridor […]
CHEVRON MUST HALT PLANS TO CIRCUMVENT LABOUR CONTRACT GUIDELINES
CHEVRON MUST HALT PLANS TO CIRCUMVENT LABOUR CONTRACT GUIDELINES The National Leadership of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Association (PENGASSAN) are becoming extremely worried and concerned with the ways and manners the Chevron Management is executing the end of M15 and H15 Contracts, which is […]
NUPENG President William Akporeha Hosts Augustine Adokou
Augustine Adokou, project co-ordinator for “Stop Precarious Works Project Africa” with National President of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Comrade Williams Eniredonana Akporeha and his management team along side with Comrade Ismail Bello,DGS Textile Union/ National Secretary Industriall National Council, after a successful 3-day workshop held at the NUPENG’s secretariat in […]
NUPENG General Secretary, Comrade Adamu Song declaring a workshop open
NUPENG General Secretary, Comrade Adamu Song declaring open at the Union’s National Secretariat a workshop tagged “organizing precarious workers and Collective bargaining” facilitated by Industrial Global Union Federation, Nigeria Council.
NUPENG CALLS OFF STRIKE
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed all its members who had withdrawn their services in Delta State to return back to work with immediate effect. President of the Union, Comrade Williams Akporeha took the decision on Friday (Sept. 7, 2018) after the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment through […]
NUPENG gives 24 hours ultimatum for the withdrawal of armed military operatives
BREAKING: NUPENG gives 24 hours ultimatum for the withdrawal of armed military operatives who forcefully evicted oil workers from SEEPCO/BOGEL oil fields in Kwale, Delta State on grounds of unionisation, failure which could lead to nationwide industrial action.” -Comrade Williams Akporeha (NUPENG PRESIDENT)
Picture at the meeting
FROM LEFT: Comrade Tayo Aboyeji (Chairman NUPENG Lagos Zone), Comrade Monday Osunde (NUPENG National Trustee), Ms Remi Ihejirika (Project Mangager-Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-FES Nigeria Office), Uli Thum (Resident Representative of FES Nigeria Office), Comrade Williams Akporeha (NUPENG National President), Comrade Adamu Song (NUPENG General Secretary) and Comrade Afolabi Olawale (NUPENG Deputy General Secretary) during a meeting […]
NUPENG Workers’ Council Passes Vote Of Confidence On Williams Akporeha
NUPENG Workers’ Council Passes Vote Of Confidence On Williams Akporeha The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Workers’ Council has commended the Union’s President, Comrade Williams Eniredonana Akporeha for his noble leadership role and for the milestone achievements he recorded within a short period of his assumption into office. The Council’s Chairman, […]
NUPENG President Comrade Akporeha, Other Frontline Unionists Celebrate With Otite in Grand Style
Birthday: NUPENG President Comrade Akporeha, Other Frontline Unionists Celebrate With Otite in Grand Style The National President of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Williams Akporeha was among dignitaries who were thrown into jubilant mood on Monday, August 27, 2018 as one of the leading lights of the Union, Comrade Otite […]
NUPENGASSAN Revalidates Commitment
NUPENGASSAN Revalidates Commitment To Build Stronger Ties & Engender Interests of Oil & Gas Workers The two Unions in the Nigeria’s oil and gas industry; Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN) under the auspices of NUPENGASSAN have resolved to revalidate their […]
NUPENG-PENGASSAN Repudiate NCDMB& OPTS Newly Signed Service Level Agreement; Direct Stakeholders To Rescind Decision
NUPENG-PENGASSAN Repudiate NCDMB& OPTS Newly Signed Service Level Agreement; Direct Stakeholders To Rescind Decision The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) read with rude shock and total dismay the purported Service Level Agreement (SLA) reached between the Nigerian Content Development […]
PASS REMAINING PARTS OF PIB – NUPENG
PASS REMAINING PARTS OF PIB – NUPENG The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) is worried about the delay in the passage of the remaining parts of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and calls on the National Assembly to quickly pass it without further delay. The Union stated that the delay in […]
NUPENG APPOINTS COMRADE ADAMU SONG AS GENERAL SECRETARY
NUPENG APPOINTS COMRADE ADAMU SONG AS GENERAL SECRETARY The Nigeria Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has appointed Comrade Adamu Song as its new General Secretary, following the retirement of Comrade Joseph Ogbebor, the erstwhile General Secretary. Comrade Adamu Song is a seasoned labour technocrat who until now was the former Deputy General […]
NIGERIA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IS TOO WEAK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA (CFTA)
NIGERIA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IS TOO WEAK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA (CFTA) The attention of the United Labour Congress of Nigeria has been drawn to the forward and backward movement by Nigeria in its effort to either join the CFTA or abandon it. ULC commends the President for putting a halt to […]
NO CRISIS IN NUPENG
NO CRISIS IN NUPENG The Nigeria Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) has debunked alleged insinuations of tenure elongation of its National Executive Council as reported in some national dailies. The Union states that there is no iota of truth in it, as the union is working assiduously to conduct its National Delegates […]
NUPENG Decries Suffering of Nigerians
NUPENG Decries Suffering of Nigerians The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has decried the current suffering and pains of Nigerians as a result of the persistent and unjustified fuel scarcity. The Union frowned at the incessant fuel scarcity which has resulted to long queues, loss of man-hours and endless search for […]
NUPENG NOT ON STRIKE
FROM: General Secretary To: All Zonal Chairmen/Secretaries/SAGS/SOS Dear Comrades, NUPENG NOT ON STRIKE The leadership of our great Union in recent times have been inundated with calls by members and non-members on the recent fuel queues experienced in the country to know if NUPENG is on strike. Let me use this medium to inform our […]