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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has threatened to go on strike if the management of the Port Harcourt Company, PHRC, does not revoke its decision to sack over 175 casual workers.

The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) said on Wednesday that cooking gas retailers have been permitted to operate during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Security agencies in the country have been called upon to aid the free movement of petrol tanker drivers as they are part of the essential workers granted permission to operate by the president during the lockdown.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has moved to repair the portion of the system 2B pipeline that was affected by the Abule Ado explosion on Sunday.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has vowed to take measures to avert incidences like the recent explosion in Lagos that claimed over 15 lives and annihilated properties worth billions of Nigeria.

Data obtained on Monday from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, reveal that Nigeria spent N1.713 trillion on the importation of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol.

Nigeria will issue a sovereign guarantee to back the bulk of a gas pipeline that is a core part of the government’s energy strategy, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Wednesday.

The cleaning and internal inspection of the offshore gas pipeline from Badagry in Nigeria to Takoradi, Ghana by the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), has been successfully completed on Sunday, February 23, 2020.

The Board of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) has said that the Federal Government is working towards the transportation of petrol and cooking gas in Nigeria by rail.

Japan has deployed a warship on Sunday to patrol oil lanes in the Middle East which supplies 90% of the country’s oil, as a measure to guard against attacks on its oil tankers, Reuters reported.