Dangote refinery: NLC orders nationwide strike

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has ordered full-scale mobilization of its affiliate unions for a nationwide onslaught against what it described arsenic the Dangote Group’s “deliberate anti-worker crusade” and disregard for Nigeria’s labour laws.

The directive, issued successful an interior memo signed by NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, connected September 29, 2025, said the clip for “pleading and fruitless dialogue” with the conglomerate was implicit and that the infinitesimal had travel for “decisive, corporate action.”

According to the memo, “The ongoing disputes with PENGASSAN and NUPENG are lone symptoms of a deeper problem: a systemic anti-labour argumentation of union-busting, idiosyncratic exploitation, and disregard for the regularisation of instrumentality that defines the Group’s concern relations practices.”

“For excessively long, the Dangote Group has operated similar a authorities wrong a state, flouting Section 40 of the Nigerian Constitution, violating ILO Conventions 87 and 98, and treating our labour laws with contempt. Its facilities person go plantations of exploitation wherever workers’ dignity is deliberately crushed successful pursuit of nett for a few.

“The clip for pleading and fruitless dialog is over. The infinitesimal for decisive, corporate enactment is now. All affiliate unions are hereby placed connected contiguous and afloat alert, statesman vigorous and broad unionisation of each workers wrong Dangote facilities nether your jurisdiction. This is simply a strategical priority.

“Commence preparations to mobilise members and resources for full-scale, decisive engagement against the Dangote Group’s anti-labour stance.

“The Congress besides issued wide demands to the Dangote Group: “Unconditional respect for workers’ close to freely articulation unions of their choice, an extremity to intimidation, victimisation, and union-busting activities, and afloat compliance with Nigeria’s labour laws and institutions.

“To enforce the directive, each affiliate national has been instructed to instantly acceptable up an Action Mobilisation Committee and liaise with the NLC National Secretariat wrong 72 hours to coordinate strategy, logistics, and communication. Unity of intent and enactment is non-negotiable.

“The NLC accused the Dangote Group of operating with impunity, alleging that regulatory authorities had failed to rein successful its excesses. The impunity of the Dangote Group indispensable beryllium met with the corporate absorption of organised labour. No magnitude of propaganda oregon paid agents volition halt america from defending workers’ rights, particularly successful the look of regulatory capture, wherever the authorities appears to person abdicated its work to clasp this conglomerate accountable.

“The humor and sweat of Nigerian workers built the Dangote empire; we volition not let it to go a monument to their oppression. Together we stand! Together, we volition overcome!”

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