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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…
Divestment deals will restore oil industry vibrancy __NCDMB
Sopuruchi Onwuka Contrary to fears of job losses and industry activity downsize, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has assured that the prevailing transfer of brownfield oil and gas assets from international oil companies to indigenous independent companies will…
Oil industry leaders restate pledge to gender diversity
Sopuruchi Onwuka Petroleum industry captains in Nigeria have reiterated their resolve to create equal opportunity work environment for both male and female professionals and business owners. The agreement among all panel discussants at the 2023 Annual International Strategic Conference of…
NBS lowers parameter for rating employment
Sopuruchi Onwuka Government has reduced the consideration for being categorized as employed in the country to near idleness as the country’s unemployment figures continues to global peak, insisting that about 75 percent of working age adults are employed in the…
WIEN secures NGA partnership on gender diversity in energy industry
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s foremost workplace gender equity advocacy group, Women in Energy Network (WIEN) is collaborating with the new leadership of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) to evolve a structured data based approach to gender balancing in the industry. The…
