Petrol tanker drivers below the umbrella of the Nigerian Street Transport House owners Affiliation (NARTO) on Tuesday suspended their nationwide strike.
They determined to name off the strike after NARTO Nationwide President Othman Yusuf met with State Oil Minister Heineken Lokpobiri.
Additionally current on the assembly which happened in Abuja have been oil entrepreneurs and officers of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
Following Monday's assembly with the Nigerian authorities and stakeholders, tanker drivers had ceased operations and have been now not engaged in transporting petroleum merchandise as a result of difficult financial situations.
They’d additionally complained concerning the astronomical enhance in the price of LPG oil, often known as diesel, which they use to gasoline their vans for transporting petroleum merchandise throughout the nation.
The value of diesel has elevated in current occasions as a result of foreign exchange disaster in Nigeria with a liter of the product now promoting above N1,250.
The tanker drivers have subsequently heeded the directive of NARTO's Nationwide President, Yusuf, to withdraw their vans with impact from Monday, February 19, 2024.
Yusuf had issued the directive in a letter dated Thursday, February 15, addressed to the Secretary Common of the Nigerian Petroleum and Pure Gasoline Union (NUPENG).
Nonetheless, after embarking on the nationwide strike that lasted 24 hours, the petrol tanker drivers have determined to make a U-turn as directed by Yusuf.
“We’ve agreed to droop and withdraw the motion and we are going to start operations instantly,” Yusuf stated on Tuesday.
