Nigerian oil unions threaten to strike

Nigerian oil unions threatened Sunday to launch a strike next week to protest against the planned sale of two government-owned oil refineries to private investors.

Representatives of the PENGASSAN and NUPENG oil workers unions told a joint press conference in Lagos that the strike against the proposed sale of the installations in the oil city of Port Harcourt would begin on Thursday.

The refineries, which have a combined production capacity of 210,000 barrels of crude per day, are subsidiaries of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that employs some 4,000 workers.

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