The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has suspended its industrial action, protesting the sack of over 800 members of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company, who were laid off unceremoniously. President of PENGASSAN, Festus Osifo, announced the suspension today, in Abuja, warning the federal governme...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) has intervened in the ongoing rift between Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the oil unions — the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). The oi...
•PENGASSAN protest Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) today barricaded the premises of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) in Abuja in compliance with the directives from its national executive committee for a nationwide industrial action. The aggrieved oil workers union members ar...
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...
•NUPENG logo and Aliko Dangote Barely 48 hours after the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) suspended its strike action, the union has alleged that the management of the Dangote Refinery had reneged on the resolutions reached. In a statement jointly signed by its President and General Secretary, Williams Akporeha and A...
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has suspended its strike following an agreement with the management of Dangote Refinery to recognise workers’ rights to unionise. The deal was reached at a closed-door meeting convened by the Department of State Services (DSS) and attended by the Minister of Finance and representa...
Indications have emerged that the management of Dangote Group has accepted to allow workers of the its refinery and petrochemicals join the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG. Sources at the meeting told our correspondent that an MOU is currently being drafted to be signed by parties, reports Vanguard. According to the ...
The federal government has commenced a closed-door meeting with the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Dangote Group as part of efforts to resolve the industrial dispute between the two parties. The meeting is being led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Mohammed Dingyadi, as well as the Minister [&helli...
The federal government has called on the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to reconsider its decision to initiate a nationwide strike starting today, Monday, September 8, 2025. The dispute centres around the Dangote Group’s policy that allegedly restrains its employees from associating with unions in the industry, re...
•FUPRE Members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Warri Zone, yesterday, shut down activities at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State, accusing the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ezekiel Agbalagba, o...
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