By Victor Ahiuma-Young There is no doubt that like other private-sector workers, this is one the most trying periods for workers in the nation’s petroleum industry as the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened their plight. Oil workers are faced with increasing challenges of job security and unfair labour practices, among others in the wake of the […]

Organised labour in the nation’s power sector has rejected a recent directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, that banks should take over the collection of electricity bills from Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Sunday, denied holding a meeting with Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, over last Wednesday’s sack of members, insisting that the seven-day strike notice subsists.

The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Lagos has granted an ex parte injunction restraining the executives of the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees, UFBTE from conducting its emergency Conference scheduled for Friday, August 21.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Thursday, issued a seven-day nationwide strike notice over the alleged non-procedural sack of members by Chevron Nigeria Limited and its service contractors on Wednesday.