ORKERS in the informal sector have rejected the Federal Government’s plan to remove subsidy on petrol, saying it would worsen the sufferings of Nigerians and that the so-called safety nets by government would be meaningless.

IN a move aimed at implementing the Federal Government’s proposed transformation agenda in the power sector the management of Eko Distribution Company, one of the eleven distribution companies under the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN has begun the review of its operations.

It is a common belief that more than fifty years of petroleum exploration in the country has seen very little impact in the sub-text of petroleum and technological education, and therefore the development of local expertise in the sector.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has said if the revelations at the Senate Hearing on Privatisation especially energy, are anything to go by, a people-oriented reforms in the nation’s Power sector, is a mirage.

WORKERS in the nation’s Petroleum industry, have advised the Federal Government and others clamouring for total deregulation of the downstream sector of the nation’s oil industry, not to test the will of Nigerians including the organized labour in the sector.