PTD Nationwide Management Sends Particular Christmas & New Yr Messages To Members, Different Nigerians

As Nigerian Christians be a part of others all over the world to commemorate the beginning of Jesus Christ, public officers, politicians and captains of industries throughout the nation have launched goodwill messages, preaching peace, love, unity and tolerance.

Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Department of NUPENG tops the checklist of leaders in Nigeria who’ve congratulated Christians on Christmas, 2024 version. The drivers requested for prayers to beat the nation’s safety, political and socio-economic challenges, and likewise for Divine intervention on the disaster bedeviling the Nationwide management of the Union since final October, 2023.

Within the message signed on Christmas eve by the Nationwide Chairman of the Union, Comrade Fortunate Osesua, his deputies, Comrade Dayyabu Garga, Comrade (Chief) Peter Moudebelu (ONWA) and the Nationwide Secretary, who can also be a Pastor, Comrade (Dr) Humble Obinna Energy, the Oil and Fuel Union mentioned that “devoted adherence to the virtues of Jesus Christ, together with love, unity, sacrifice and peaceable coexistence, which represent the basic components for improvement of any nation, will result in the expansion and stability of Nigeria.”

In addition they “admonished Christians to make use of this era as one for sober reflection on the acute challenges going through the nation and to see how they might apply the virtues of Jesus Christ in fashioning out workable measures aimed toward pulling Nigeria out of the quagmire she has discovered herself in at this essential cut-off date.

“That’s the reason we have to keep in mind the love that Jesus taught. We should love our neighbours as ourselves, do good to them and want them effectively, whether or not or not they belong to our denominations or of the identical Religion. Nigeria can’t transfer ahead as a rustic till each considered one of us notice that what is nice for the goose must also be good for the gander. 

“We should additionally proceed to respect one another’s proper to dwell freely, affiliate freely and peacefully. The interval of Christmas commemorates the beginning of Jesus Christ, who’s the image of Christianity and the harbinger of peace, love and good tidings.”

“There isn’t any doubt that the instances are tough and the Nigerian state is going through huge challenges, however it’s our want, expectation and prayer that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Authorities will enthrone the promised change and work laborious in the direction of the objective of true transformation and improvement,” PTD additional mentioned.

In continuation, the union additionally commiserated with all of the households who’ve misplaced their family members to the unlucky incidences of stampedes in Ibadan, Oyo, Okija, Anambra and Abuja, the FCT, “Might the nice Lord give all of the households power to bear their sorrowful loss and should the souls of all of the dearly departed discover relaxation,” the union prayed.

PTD additionally careworn that the Nationwide Orientation Company ought to collaborate with all state governments and the media to teach stakeholders and most of the people on public safety apply that entails managing massive teams of individuals to forestall security dangers and maintain occasions working easily.

The union equally recommended the Federal authorities for fixing the present roads within the nation and for additionally placing in efforts to assemble new ones, whereas additionally advising that extra precedence must be given to the main highways with enough safety for the drivers. 

It additionally suggested Tanker Drivers throughout the 4 zones within the nation to stay regulation abiding within the discharge of their respectable duties: the distribution of Petroleum merchandise for the general socio-economic good and advantages of Nigeria; whereas additionally wishing all members and Nigerians a really Merry Christmas and a affluent and worthwhile 2025.