NNPC shuts down Headquarters.

In expressing their grievances the  oil workers embarked on a full-scale industrial action,
which led to the shutdown of the corporate headquarters of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Abuja as
well product depots, mega filling stations and other critical
facilities. This made the scarcity of petrol to worsen on Wednesday.
The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural
Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian
Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, who gathered
at the corporation’s headquarters early in the morning, shut
the NNPC in protest against the restructuring of the
national oil firm by the Federal Government and
immediately embarked on a nationwide industrial action.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe
Kachikwu, had on Tuesday evening announced that President
Muhammadu Buhari had approved the restructuring of the
NNPC into seven new divisions, comprising 20 subsidiaries.