{"id":31274,"date":"2014-09-18T21:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31274"},"modified":"2014-09-19T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:59:00","slug":"minister-urges-nigerians-panic-fuel-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/minister-urges-nigerians-panic-fuel-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister urges Nigerians not to panic over fuel scarcity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2529\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, on Thursday in Abuja urged Nigerians not to panic over the current fuel scarcity in the country.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2569\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Wogu made the call while speaking with newsmen on the ongoing strike by the oil and gas sectors.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2570\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Monday shut down operations nationwide.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2571\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The unions had shut down operations nationwide over alleged irregular funding of their pen\u00adsion scheme, which had led to about N85 billion deficit.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2572\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Other demands of the workers are the call for immediate steps to carry out Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) on the four refineries as agreed between government and the two unions and restoration of crude supply to the refineries<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2573\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The minister said that talks were still ongoing with the management of the Nigerian National Petro\u00adleum Corporation (NNPC) and the in house unions of PEN\u00adGASSAN and NUPENG.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2574\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201c Everything is under control, discussions are going on, talks started yesterday and are still on.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2575\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere should be no need for panic buying of fuel and I am positive that the issue will be resolved soon, \u2018\u2019 he said.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1411058985993_2576\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Most filling stations in Abuja are not selling the commodity while there are long queues at the few stations selling. 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