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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited has suspended self-collection gantry income of petroleum products astatine its facility, effectual Thursday, September 18, 2025.
This was disclosed successful an interior correspondence connected Friday, signed by the company’s Group Commercial Operations Department. The directive, according to management, is aimed astatine halting income to unregistered marketers and driving wider adoption of its escaped transportation scheme.
The refinery explained that the determination was “an operational adjustment” designed to amended efficiency.
“We privation to pass you that, effectual 18th September 2025, Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has placed each self-collection gantry income connected clasp until further notice. In airy of this development, we kindly petition that each payments related to progressive PFIs for self-collection are besides placed connected clasp until further notice. Please enactment that immoderate outgo made aft this day volition not beryllium honoured,” the correspondence stated.
The institution assured marketers that its Free Delivery Scheme remains afloat operational for some progressive and recently onboarded customers.
“We promote each progressive and recently onboarded customers to registry for the DPRP Free Delivery Scheme, which remains afloat operational and offers a seamless transportation acquisition to your station,” it added.
While apologising for immoderate inconvenience caused, the refinery said the measurement was necessary, “We sincerely apologise for immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn origin and admit your knowing arsenic we instrumentality this operational adjustment.”
The suspension came amid an ongoing standoff betwixt the refinery, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN).
NUPENG had accused the refinery of resisting the unionisation of its motortruck drivers contempt a government-brokered agreement. On the different hand, DAPPMAN has criticised the refinery’s “free transportation scheme,” alleging that marketers are being compelled to trust connected Dangote’s fleet astatine commercialized rates.
But the refinery insists its transportation exemplary is designed to stabilise proviso and curb diversion, rejecting calls it says magnitude to demands for subsidies.
LEADERSHIP On Thursday, September 18, 2025, reported that the refinery reaffirmed its presumption against DAPPMAN’s claims, declaring it would not sorb logistics costs that marketers are seeking to displacement to its operations.
In a connection shared connected Dangote Group’s authoritative X account, titled “We Stand By Our Statement connected DAPPMAN … Marketers’ ₦1.505trn Subsidy Demand”, the institution said it reserved the close to support its operations against “misleading reports.”
“We volition not sorb logistics costs disguised arsenic subsidies. Our work is to guarantee unchangeable proviso astatine just rates, not to underwrite inefficiencies successful distribution,” the connection read.
The determination is expected to importantly impact autarkic petroleum marketers and retail owners who person not registered for the escaped transportation strategy and antecedently relied connected nonstop self-collection astatine the refinery’s gantry.
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