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Following a week of protest and a meeting with the Nigerian National Executive Committee, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have called off their strike. The main reasons cited for the halting of the workers’ demonstrations are government and petroleum industry leaders’ promises that wrongly laid-off employees would be reinstated and that workers would be guaranteed some level of job security in the face of industry restructuring efforts. The proposals drafted at the aforementioned meeting between the striking unions and national leadership have been agreed to by a number of major oil companies which have previously curtailed employees’ rights by firing them without due process.