''It is therefore doubtful if President Mohammadu Buhari will be able to deliver his campaign promises to Nigerians if the price of crude oil which accounts for some 90% of Nigeria’s total export revenue and 75% of total consolidated revenue continue to hover around $50 per barrel between now and 2019.'' Chika Onuegbu in his 2015 paper titled “HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL OIL POLITICS ON CRUDE OIL PRICES, INVESTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN THE NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY”

Chika Onuegbu

Comrade Hyginus Chika Onuegbu JP,LLM, ACIPM, FCTI, FCA, is a Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria(TUC). He was the Chairman Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Committee of Petroleum & Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Ex-officio/Immediate Past State Chairman, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) Rivers State .He is also the immediate past National Industrial Relations Officer of Petroleum & Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). He was the Chairman NUPENG & PENGASSAN Joint National Committee on the 2012 Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).He is a member of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) ; a Justice of the Peace (JP);a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) trained by the now Akintola Williams Deloitte (Chartered Accountants) .He holds a B.Sc. Degree in Accounting from the University of Port Harcourt, an M.Sc. Economics degree from the University of Calabar , an MA Leading Innovation and Change degree from York St. John University, United Kingdom, and an LLM degree with distinction from the University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom. Comrade Chika Onuegbu has to his credit over 35 scholarly publications on Labour and Industrial Relations some of which are published in leading journals such as the Nigerian Journal of Labour Law & Industrial Relations etc. His paper on the Minimum wage is published in the archives of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria. Many of his papers can be downloaded free from his Academia page https://yorksj.academia.edu/chikaonuegbu .He can be reached on: Tel +2348037404222/ Email: chikaonuegbu@yahoo.com. For more information on Comrade Chika Onuegbu please refer to the book- “The Courage to Stand: The Story of Comrade Chika Onuegbu” by veteran journalist Mr Ignatius Chukwu.

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