NUPENG calls off strike

NUPENG said the strike, which resulted in traffic lock-down in such major cities as Abuja and Lagos, was necessary to draw attention to issues related to its members' jobs.
NUPENG had announced the commencement of the strike and directed all fuel depots to shut down in compliance on Monday. Its president, Achese Igwe, remarked in the statement that the issues that prompted the action included the high level of insecurity in the country, the bad state of the roads in the country, and an increasing level of oil theft in the littoral states.

Tokunbo Korodo, the chairman of the south-west chapter of NUPENG, said the decision to suspend the industrial action followed the intervention of Andrew Yakubu, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as the Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
However, NUPENG warned that its members would adopt a more serious and prolonged labor action without warning if the government failed to address the concerns raised by the union.