Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has threatened to embark on a strike action if the Eleme Junction Road leading to the Port Harcourt Refinery, Rivers State, is not repaired. Salimon Oladiti, National President of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers on September 3 in Lagos said that some…
The Politics of Privatisation of Refineries
After several years of tinkering with privatisation of the nation’s ailing refineries, the government yields to pressure again to put the process on hold, creating room for more years of rot in the oil sector Investors who are prospecting for Nigeria’s moribund refineries may have to wait for a longer time for inexplicable reasons. In…
