LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of a Nigerian oil workers’ union are threatening to go on strike if the government does not do more to stem widespread oil theft they say is putting their safety at risk and has cut exports by hundreds of thousands of barrels. Workers with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil companies have asked security services to tighten surveillance as violent anti-police brutality protests and the expected sacking of hundreds of workers worsen desperation in the region, industry sources told Reuters. Already unemployment is above 40% in Nigeria’s energy regions and observers say further job losses could aggravate problems of pipeline tapping,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) subsidiary of US firm ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before the expiration of their employment contacts…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Mr. Francis Johnson, is dead. According to a report in The PUNCH, Johnson died in the wee hours of Friday. The deceased, who became President of the union in 2014, was said to have passed on after an ailment. The General…