Fuel Scarcity Looms As Nigerian Petroleum Workers Shut Down Depots Monday In Line With NLC Directive


NUPENG famed that it will furthermore shut filling stations, from heart of the evening of Sunday, June 2, 2024.
The Minister of Mutter for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejoecha, has begged the the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend their deliberate strike over minimum wage negotiations.
This is correct as in compliance with the Organised Labour’s decision, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Fuel Workers, NUPENG in a press free up signed by its Customary Secretary, Afolabi Olawola directed its contributors to shut down all operations at the side of distribution and marketing of petroleum merchandise.
NUPENG famed that it will furthermore shut filling stations, from heart of the evening of Sunday, June 2, 2024.
The minister, Onyejoecha in a press free up signed by her Special Adviser on Media, Emameh Gabriel, cautioned that declaring a strike within the midst of ongoing negotiations would exacerbate the struggling of thousands and thousands of Nigerians who were already struggling to kind a living from their every day endeavours.
She furthermore stated declaring a strike within the midst of negotiations would compound the financial woes, insisting it is a long way now no longer within the most life like curiosity of the country and its folks.
Denying Labour’s allegation, the Minister famed that the authorities had repeatedly demonstrated dedication and goodwill in each place in the negotiations, explaining extra that the authorities’s proposals were moderately crafted, taking into myth the country’s financial realities and incorporating revolutionary solutions.
She stated the proposals encompass a comprehensive equipment that contains a wage amplify to N60,000 for federal workers, the introduction of CNG-fuelled buses, and enhanced financial get entry to for Micro, Little and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs as correctly because the authorities pledged investments in strategic sectors equivalent to agriculture, manufacturing, training, healthcare and loads of others that were already within the pipeline.
The minister warned that the authorities used to be cautious about any new minimum wage, to preserve a long way flung from popular job losses, particularly within the Organised Interior most Sector, which employs bulk of the country personnel.