Some oil marketers on Monday threatened to embark on industrial strike following the shutdown of Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) by National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). The News Agency reports that NUPENG shutdown the NIPCO facilities on March 24. Mr Abidemi Agunbiade, Chairman, a concerned group of IPMAN, expressed worries over the looming fuel scarcity in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Agunbiade said that the shutdown of the NIPCO had affected over 1,000 marketers who had paid money to load petrol. According to him, over 450 million litres of fuel imported to discharge into NIPCO depot are still on the high seas due to the shutdown of the company. “About four vessels are on the high seas including those of the NNPC. “The stranded vessels are paying demurrage of 15,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars on daily basis due to […]