Nigeria: Oil Workers Threaten to Withdraw From Niger Delta

The leadership of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) yesterday threatened to pull out their members working in the Niger Delta region, saying that the lives of oil workers in the area are in danger.

Speaking at an expanded emergency meeting of stakeholders in the oil and gas industry in Abuja, national presidents of the unions said the Niger Delta region is increasingly becoming unsafe for oil workers to operate.
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