The Petroleum and Pure Gasoline Senior Employees Affiliation of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has ordered its members to halt gasoline provide to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery amid a dispute over employees’ union rights.
The directive was issued in a round dated September 26, 2025, and signed by Normal Secretary Comrade Lumumba Ighotemu Okugbawa, instructing members in main oil and gasoline firms to cease gasoline and crude deliveries to the refinery and droop vessel loading operations.
PENGASSAN stated the motion adopted the refinery’s alleged disengagement of employees looking for to unionize, accusing administration of spreading misinformation as an alternative of addressing grievances.
The round, copied to department chairmen at TotalEnergies, Seplat, Chevron, Oando, Shell, and NGIC, tasked NGIC to chop off provide “efficient instantly.”
“We deliver you fraternal greetings from the Nationwide Secretariat. As you might be conscious, the Administration of Dangote Petroleum Refinery has disengaged our members in response to the train of their constitutional proper to being unionized.
“They’ve gone additional on a mission of misinformation and propaganda to justify this illegitimacy relatively than participating meaningfully with us to proper the flawed. Consequent to those, you might be hereby directed to chop off gasoline provide to NGIC efficient instantly. All crude oil provide valves to the Refinery ought to be shut. The loading operation for vessel headed there ought to be halted instantly.
“NGIC Chairman, make sure that gasoline provide to the Refinery is reduce off efficient instantly,” the round learn partly.
PENGASSAN stated the choice was essential to defend its members’ rights and additional instructed department chairmen to report promptly on enforcement progress.
Dangote Group has but to concern a proper response.
What you need to know
Whereas PENGASSAN linked its newest directive to alleged victimisation of employees looking for to unionise, the Dangote Group had earlier dismissed reviews of mass layoffs, saying solely a small variety of workers had been affected and even so due to efforts to safeguard refinery operations from sabotage.
- The corporate stated over 3,000 Nigerians stay employed on the refinery and maintained that employees are free to determine whether or not or to not be a part of a union.
- Labour disputes have persevered regardless of a decision brokered by three federal ministers and the Deputy Director Normal of the DSS, with NUPENG beforehand accusing the refinery of refusing to recognise employees’ rights and allegedly intimidating union officers.
PENGASSAN’s order now escalates the standoff, because it directs members to chop off gasoline and crude provide, droop vessel loading, and shut valves linked to the refinery.