The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has intensified efforts through the use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered trucks to distribute Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol at N850 per litre to different parts of the nation. Checks by our correspondent yesterday indicated that the deployment of the CNG trucks has enabled the 650,000 bar...
•Tinubu and Dangote Refinery The founder and president of Chief Emeka Agba Foundation, Chief Emeka Agba, has called on President Bola Tinubu to takeover Dangote Cement and Dangote Refinery, saying the companies were financed by Nigeria’s funds. Reacting to the disclosure made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he advised and supported ...
•The protesters Thousands of protesters comprising students, workers, women, youths, and members of various civil society organisations yesterday stormed the Niger Bridge, linking Asaba in Delta State and Onitsha in Anambra State, to demand greater government support for local refineries, including the Dangote Refinery. The demonstrators, unde...
Some of the engineers sacked by the Dangote refinery for allegedly joining the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria have decried the plan to redeploy them to sugar, cement and other business units under the Dangote Group. The workers, who spoke with our correspondent anonymously due to the sensitivity of the matter, [&...
The reconciliation meeting between the management of the Dangote Refinery and leaders of members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has been moved to the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA). The meeting, however, is being held behind closed doors, reports Channels TV. The Minister of Labo...
Justice Emmanuel Subilim of the National Industrial Court Abuja, has restrained the Petroleum, Natural Gas Workers Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) from embarking on its planned industrial action against Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE. Ruling on an ex parte application by Dangote Refinery, Justice Subilim restrained the de...
A delegation of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) and the management of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery have arrived for a reconciliation meeting with the federal government. Members of PENGASSAN, led by the President, Festus Osifo, and some members of the Dangote refinery management, arrived at the conference r...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has asked the management of the Dangote Petrochemical Refinery to tender an open apology to the group for the dismissal of more than 800 Nigerian workers. While appearing on Channels Television today , the Secretary General of TUC, Nuhu Toro, noted that the refinery violated the sacked workers’ [&helli...
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has directed its members nationwide to withdraw their services following the alleged mass dismissal of some Nigerian workers by Dangote Refinery. This was announced in a circular issued after an emergency National Executive Council meeting yesterday, Saturday, September 27, 2025...
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has condemned the plan by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) to halt crude supply to the refinery. The management of the refinery described the planned action as a “brazen, albeit shocking, display of lawlessness and criminality” by PENGASSAN, reports Channels TV. It sai...
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