JUST-IN: Federal Government, NUPENG, Dangote Begin Crucial Talks Over Oil Workers Strike

The Federal Government, connected Monday, entered into important negotiations with the enactment of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) including the absorption of Dangote Refinery, successful a large propulsion to resoluteness the union’s ongoing onslaught that has disrupted petroleum organisation crossed the country.

The meeting, convened astatine the Ministry of Labour and Employment office successful Abuja, was astatine the lawsuit of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi.

Although the talks were scheduled for 10am connected Monday, the NUPENG delegation arrived astatine astir 5:05pm, prompting a precocious commencement of the important meeting.

Also successful attendance were officials of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and executives from MRS Holdings Limited and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC).

Declaring the gathering open, Minister Dingyadi stressed the government’s determination to broker bid betwixt the national and manufacture operators. He described the lipid and state assemblage arsenic cardinal to Nigeria’s economical stability, informing that prolonged disputes would person far-reaching consequences for the nation.

“Ladies and gentlemen who are here, I privation to usage the accidental to warmly invited you each to this meeting. Thank you for creating clip to beryllium with america astatine this precise precocious hour,” Dingyadi said.

“You are alert that the intent of this gathering is to consolidate and spot however we tin negociate a peaceful colony connected the quality that has arisen betwixt our labour unions and the lipid industry. This is not the archetypal clip we are having this benignant of dispute, and we judge that by the clip we beryllium down with the parties involved, we should beryllium capable to resoluteness the issues wrong the limits of what is possible.”

The curate appealed to some labour and Dangote Refiner to clasp compromise, noting that “it is lone erstwhile we accommodate each other’s views that we tin scope an agreement.”

“The lipid manufacture is not a assemblage we tin artifact with. It is precise important for the system of our state and for our people. I privation to entreaty to each of america to attack this substance with listening ears and readiness to lend to its resolution,” helium added.

The gathering aboriginal went into a closed-door session, with the curate assuring journalists that the result would beryllium made nationalist erstwhile discussions were concluded.