Dangote Refinery, Oil Workers’ Dispute Escalates

However, Dangote Petroleum Refinery has dismissed the allegations made by the NUPENG, insisting that, claims of anti-labour practices, monopolistic behaviour, and planned substance terms hikes are wholly unfounded.

Meanwhile, interventions are ongoing to resoluteness the concern disharmony arsenic stakeholders wade into the warfare betwixt NUPENG and Dangote Refinery.

In the latest connection sent to LEADERSHIP by NUPENG General Secretary, Comrade Afolabi Olawale disclosed that, “We conscionable finished the gathering astatine the DSS with the Minister of Labour and Employment (State) successful attendance with the Deputy Director General of DSS and different operatives of DSS, the representatives of NMDPRA, Dangote, TUC, NLC and NUPENG.

The solution of the gathering is to support the presumption quo preceding the solution of 9/9/2025.
MRS Energy Ltd was asked to spell and enactment backmost the NUPENG Stickers helium instructed his drivers to removed from his trucks connected Wednesday 10/9/2025”.

A connection signed by the National President, NUPENG, Comrade Williams Akporeha, and it’s wide secretary, Comrade Afolabi Olawale, accused Dangote of Petroleum Refinery of mischievous effort to make an illusion and misinformation of part wrong the union, saying, this is not lone malicious but unfounded fabricated prevarication from the pit of hell.

“If it was existent that determination was a faction successful our Union, DANGOTE should person made this “faction of Tanker Drivers” to telephone disconnected oregon halt the nationwide concern enactment of Petroleum Tanker Drivers declared and directed by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, which was precise effective, peaceful and 1 100 percent successful.

“Dangote Refinery besides falsely denies it does not halt its motortruck drivers from belonging to NUPENG.

However, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed connected 9th September 2025 is predicated upon a designation of the company’s absorption to unionisation.

The commencement of the MoU is truthful a confirmation of archetypal absorption to allowing state of Association,” the radical stated.

In spite of the MoU of 9th September 2025, connected the 11th of September 2025, the relation alleged that Dangote Refinery directed that the stickers of NUPENG beryllium removed from each trucks to beryllium replaced by the sticker of the association, the Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association (DTCDA) formed by the management.

“The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been sponsoring part wrong the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of our Union since 2023. The company’s agents wrong our national person been losing elections. It is those who person been losing elections successful the PTD Branch of NUPENG that are being recruited to signifier the ill-fated Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association (DTCDA). The company’s agents who person been losing elections successful the PTD Branch of NUPENG are among those granting media interviews successful enactment of the company.,” NUPENG stated.

Saying that Nigerians should not beryllium deceived by the connection of escaped nationwide transportation of petroleum products to dispensing stations, the radical said, its a strategy meant to guarantee that different employers of Petroleum Truck Drivers are incapable to employment drivers truthful that lone those employed by the institution who are forced to articulation DTCDA volition stay successful employment.

“It is besides noteworthy to authorities present that, speech from the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, determination are different operational and administrative workers of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company which the absorption has been preventing and obstructing their rights of belonging to the Union. It is connected grounds that DANGOTE Group does not let unionization of workers successful each its cement and sweetener plants crossed Nigeria,” it stressed.

Refuting the allegation, Dangote said, the union’s statement, released connected September 5, 2025, and consequent media appearances, alleged that Dangote Group was undermining national activities and threatening workers’ payment done its caller deployment of compressed earthy state (CNG) powered trucks.

Dangote Refinery, successful the statement, reiterated its afloat enactment for constitutionally protected labour rights, stating that employees are escaped to affiliate with immoderate recognised commercialized union.

The connection said, assertions that drivers are compelled to waive national rights are categorically false, adding that the quality involves NUPENG’s Petrol Tanker Drivers (PTD) portion and does not implicate the refinery successful immoderate breach of rights.

Central to NUPENG’s allegations is the roll-out of implicit 4,000 CNG-powered bulk trucks, which the national claims could displace existing jobs. Dangote Group firmly refuted this, describing the inaugural arsenic a cornerstone of Nigeria’s vigor modulation strategy.

The deployment of CNG-powered trucks is simply a strategical inaugural designed to enactment nationalist vigor trans...