NUPENG threatens shutdown over Dangote’s ‘anti-union stance’ on CNG tanker drivers
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) Workers says it will start sourcing for alternative employment from September 8 over the refusal by Aliko Dangote, owner of the Dangote refinery, to allow his newly-employed compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered tanker drivers “join labour unions”. In a statement jointly signed by Williams Akporeha, NUPENG’s president, and Afolabi Olawale, the association’s general secretary, in Abuja on Friday, the union condemned the ‘anti-union...