Dangote Refinery, Oil Union Hold Marathon Meeting To End Crisis

As of property clip connected Monday night,  representatives of  the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN)  and the  Dangote Refinery  were gathering successful Abuja,  trying  to reach  an statement to extremity the face-off betwixt the two  parties. The gathering was convened by the Federal Ministry of Labour.

Earlier successful the day,  Electricity proviso crossed Nigeria had experienced a crisp diminution arsenic powerfulness procreation plunged to 1,062.06 megawatts (MW), owed to a important disruption successful state proviso caused by ongoing concern enactment by the lipid workers.

The chopped successful state proviso has straight affected gas-fired powerfulness plants, which represent a important information of Nigeria’s energy procreation capacity, exacerbating an already fragile powerfulness sector.

This comes arsenic the lipid workers, who began their nationwide onslaught connected Monday, unopen down offices of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), and different cardinal agencies.

The concern action, organised by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), is to protestation the sackings of astir 800 workers astatine the Dangote Refinery for allegedly belonging to the association.

The elder lipid workers’ national had besides directed its members to halt the proviso of crude lipid and state to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery immediately.

Gas-powered plants, which typically relationship for astir 80 per cent of Nigeria’s full installed procreation capacity, were forced to trim output oregon spell offline completely, causing the nationwide dip successful disposable power.

According to caller information from the Nigerian Electricity System Operator (NESO), full powerfulness procreation fell from an mean of astir 4,328.40 MW earlier the onslaught to the existent 1,062.06 MW.

Hydro-powered companies, specified arsenic Jebba Hydroelectric Power and Shiroro Power, generated the disposable power.

Confirming the state proviso chopped to LEADERSHIP connected Monday, the enforcement caput of the Association of Power Generating Companies (APGC), Dr Joy Ogaji, said that the striking lipid workers made bully their menace to chopped state proviso to Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company (NGIC), the steadfast that transports state to generating companies and different users.

Speaking with our correspondent, Dr Ogaji said, “After the weekend’s instructions from the state suppliers and the NGIC, the state transporter, that the GenCos should unopen down, particularly successful the occidental states, they each unopen down.”

“So we are not alert of immoderate reversal. If you adjacent check, the powerfulness procreation is low. We saw astir 2,000 megawatts, and it’s a effect of that. So, to the champion of my knowledge, they person not reviewed it,” she said.

Meanwhile, the concern enactment began aboriginal Monday greeting and has efficaciously halted regular operations and administrative activities wrong captious vigor assemblage institutions, including the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, arsenic good arsenic lipid and state agencies and parastatals nether it.

LEADERSHIP’s checks successful Abuja revealed that ministry unit and its agencies were locked retired of their offices by the striking national members.

The NNPCL, NMDPRA, and NUPRC had their main entranceway gates locked and barricaded by PENGASSAN members.

Confirming the situation, the PENGASSAN president successful NMDPRA, Tony Iziogba, said that the national had achieved “100 per cent compliance,” efficaciously restricting entree to unit and visitors.

He added that his colleagues had besides enforced 100 per cent compliance astatine the NNPCL and different applicable agencies.

PENGASSAN said the onslaught became inevitable aft the alleged wrongful dismissal of astir 800 workers astatine the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.

Expectations are precocious that the exigency gathering convened by the Minister of Labour betwixt the parties should output affirmative outcomes.

NLC Orders Nationwide Mobilisation Against Dangote Over Anti-Labour Practices

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its affiliate unions to commence contiguous mobilisation and mentation for concern enactment against the Dangote Group, accusing the institution of anti-worker policies and disregard for labour laws.

In an interior memo signed by NLC president, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and circulated to leaders of unions including NUPENG, NUEE, MWUN, NUFBTE, and others, the legislature described the group’s concern relations strategy arsenic a deliberate run of union-busting, idiosyncratic enslavement, and gross impunity.

According to the NLC, the ongoing quality betwixt the Dangote Group and lipid workers’ unions PENGASSAN and NUPENG is simply a reflection of wider structural ...