NUPENG, PENGASSAN Fault NNPCL Recruitment

NUPENG, PENGASSAN Fault NNPCL Recruitment

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have faulted the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (NNPCL)’s decision to make external recruitment into top posts in the organisation.

According to a letter jointly issued by PENGASSAN and NUPENG dated April 7th, 2025, and addressed to the NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, the unions rejected the move.

NUPENG and PENGASSAN said it will negatively impact the career progression of internal staff of the NNPCL.

“We bring you fraternal greetings from the National Secretariat of NUPENG and PENGASSAN. We received a troubling communication from our in-house unions dated the 4th of April 2025 about management’s plans to hire top and middle-level management externally,” the letter partly read.

“We are in total solidarity with our members in NNPC Ltd as there is no proven record that hiring externally has yielded any positive impact on the company. We recall that when Dr Kachikwu was appointed to lead the company in 2015, he removed the entire top management team and brought in people from the I0Cs.”

They said, “We wholeheartedly welcome the new GCEO and the board membersthat were appointed by the President and Commander-in-chief on Wednesday 2nd of April 2025, but unequivocally reject all external appointments that the board made into the M2 position and below on Friday 4th of April 2025.

“We, therefore, demand that this should be rescinded immediately as we have put our in-house group councils and various organs of the unions on red alert as failure to abide by this demand will be met with fierce and serial industrial unrest,” the letter from both bodies added.