TUC, PENGASSAN face court action over suspension, dissolution of Rivers executives

A enactment quality involving the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has taken a ineligible turn, with a Rivers State labour leader, Comrade Ikechukwu Foster Onyefuru, challenging his suspension and the dissolution of an elected national executive.

The matters are earlier the National Industrial Court, Port Harcourt Judicial Division, successful 2 abstracted cases identified arsenic NICN/PH/60/2026 and NICN/PH/63/2026.

Onyefuru, a elder unit subordinate of Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, formerly Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, is the claimant successful the archetypal case, successful which helium is contesting his removal arsenic Chairman of the Rivers State Council of the TUC.

He said helium assumed the presumption connected September 26, 2022, and is asking the tribunal to state his suspension unlawful and reconstruct him to bureau for the remainder of his tenure.

The quality followed a suspension missive issued by the TUC connected June 25, 2024, which ac...