The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has fired 850 workers, many of them from refineries, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, an oil union said on Tuesday.
The workers are both skilled and unskilled contractors, including technicians who helped maintain Nigeria’s oil refineries.
Lumumba Okugbawa, general secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), disclosed this to Reuters on the phone.
The NNPC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Layoffs in Nigeria’s oil sector are a tense issue, with frequent stand-offs between the NNPC and unions. Nigeria is dependent on crude sales to prop up its struggling economy, now at risk of its worst recession in four decades due to the coronavirus and the pandemic tanking global oil prices.
Yet Nigeria’s refineries are barely operational. Almost all of the country’s fuel supply is processed overseas at a high cost, despite Nigeria being Africa’s largest crude producer.
In May, the NNPC said it had more than 6,600 staff.
My advice is that, Nigeria is creating more problems, by creating room for unemployment
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What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That massive loss of job I don’t think the government should have allowed that
I just have pity for those people that lost their job all of a sudden
This is so sad what will happen to the unemployed workers now, how will they feed them self in this kind of hard times and their family, may God help them all thanks for the update
The country is not creating jobs and it’s firing people that are working where are they supposed to get jobs now, increasing the rate of unemployment
The rate of unemployment is seriously becoming an issue of concern in this country
Very well anticipated. By now every Nigerian should have a back up, knowing there is no job security here.
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The high rate of unemployment is alarming and is increasing the rate of crime
Hmmmmmm this very bad on this 850 workers, this not good at all thanks too top news for your update
This is very bad to suddenly fire workers in NNPC. I wonder what will happen to them
The rate of unemployment in nigeria is to much.we pray for employment in nigeria