One of Nigeria’s oil worker unions, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Pengassan), has ordered its members to leave their respective posts at installations and offices throughout Nigeria. According to the union’s Acting General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa in a statement, the strike will affect all sub-sectors of the oil and gas industry.

There are often strike threats and even small strike actions taken by Pengassan and Nigeria’s other oil workers union NUPENG, however they rarely cause a disruption to Nigeria’s flows.

A memo to members cited the inability of government to honor agreements contained from May. The group listed some of the issues to include lingering irregular joint venture funding and cash call payment arrears, and the lack of a clear cut direction on the PIB among other things.

While the union said the government had failed in its attempts to stall the strike, reports out of the country have Nigeria’s Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, is to meet with representatives of Pengassan on July 7. In a statement the Ministry said that “crucial meeting’’ was being convened to find a lasting solution to the lingering problems in the oil and gas sector.