Latest Breaking News and JOBS in Nigeria 2012 Blog

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers on Wednesday said it had suspended the nationwide strike that the union members was planning to start today, Thursday, 25th. The Union's President, Mr. Achese Igwe, who made the announcement said the ongoing s trike in Abuja would however continue. The latest development came on the heels of an intervention by the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) in the ongoing face-off between NUPENG and the FG over the non-payment of subsidy claims to oil marketers. NUPENG had on Monday threatened to embark on a nationwide strike on Thursday if the government did not to pay subsidy claims to marketers. The union on Thursday last week started an industrial action in the Federal Capital Territory. The strike has led to fuel scarcity in the FCT. The Chairman of the senate committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Magnus Abe, told newsmen on Wednesday that the committee had met with NUPENG and the Ministry of Finance on the ma...

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology(RSUST) has once again, gone on an indefinite strike action over the imposition of a new VC by the state government. Though the reasons have not been clearly stated, it is believed that the strike is as a result of the imposition of the Acting Vice Chancellor on the school. Students report that he lost in the criteria and followed not the due process and yet for political reasons the state governor imposed him on RSUST as Vice chancellor.