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PENGASSAN threatens industrial action over showdown with SEEPCO Limited
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has demanded the federal government to immediately impose stringent sanctions on Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company (SEEPCO) Limited for violating numerous labour laws, operating regulations…
SPE NAICE 2024: Energy stakeholders demand action on gender equity
Sopuruchi Onwuka Stakeholders in the Nigerian energy industry have pointed at the need to collaborate on creating inclusive environment that supports women’s advancement, stressing that doing so would unlock significant economic and innovative potential for the sector. They mounted a…
Seplat Energy empowers Nigerian media with training
Sopuruchi Onwuka Leading indigenous energy company, Seplat Energy Plc, has concluded the first phase of its training programme for journalists and media practitioners in Nigeria. The first phase of the programme covers thirty-seven (37) energy and judiciary correspondents cum editors….
Shell partners WIEN on learning, mentorship schemes
Sopuruchi Onwuka Major upstream oil multinational, Shell, has entered collaboration with leading gender equity group in the energy industry, the Women In Energy Network (WIEN), to provide broader learning platforms for female professionals in the sector. The new collaboration would…
Labour suspends strike as FG flaunts higher minimum wage
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Organized Labour has suspended the crippling industrial actions it started Monday to press home its demands for enhaced minimum wage for workers in the formal sector. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress…
Nigeria’s Adekeye leads APPO Training Directors
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s Folashade Adekeye has emerged as the Chairperson, Forum of the Directors of Oil & Gas Training & Vocational Education Institutes of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO). Adekeye, who is the Director, NNPC Academy, took over from…
Nigeria needs female talents to meet economic aspirations __WIEN President
President of the foremost Women in Energy Network (WIEN), Mrs Eyono Fatai-Williams, is steel strengthened woman with tall corporate pedigree. Her managerial and leadership experience runs across key sectors of the Nigerian economy. While currently deploying her depth of knowledge…
Ebereonwu canvasses industry-academia collaboration to close skill gaps
Sopuruchi Onwuka Emerging Nigerian petroleum industry policy analyst, Dr Charles Ebereonwu, has called for effective collaboration between the nation’s industrial sector and the academia in order to deepen innovations that propel economic development of the country. Dr Ebereonwu, who currently…
Gender equity: Tinuade Sanda joins Kamala Harris in WISE initiative
Sopuruchi Onwuka Member of the Nigeria’s gender advocacy league, Dr Tinuade Sanda, is in the United States of America with Vice President Kamala Harris in a significant stride towards fostering gender equality and sustainable practices. Dr. Tinuade Sanda is the…
NNPC settles Total’s labour crisis, restores 275,000 b/d output
Following a peace deal brokered on Sunday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, between the Management of Total Energies, operator of the NNPC/Total JV, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of…
