
Ogoni youths demand 500 NNPC jobs as oil exploration resumption sparks divisions
He said following the issues raised that convening of the Ogoni Youth National Congress 2026 has become an urgent necessity, regretting that some individuals were working to truncate the efforts of the Federal Government toward peaceful resumption if oil exploration in the area.
By Davies Iheamnachor, PORT HARCOURT Youths of oil-rich Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State have demanded 500 job slots from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited as part of the planned resumption of oil exploration in the area.
He rather requested that NNPCL as a matter of importance give 500 job slots to youths of the area, In the interim, the leadership of OYF Worldwide has observed the unnecessary tension and uproar surrounding the reported 40 slots of employment opportunity allocated to Ogoni youths in NNPCL and its subsidiaries, as part of Federal Government confidence-building measure toward the resumption of oil and gas activities in Ogoniland.
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