NUPENG accuses Dangote of breaching DSS-brokered pact, warns strike may be imminent

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has accused the absorption of the Dangote Group of violating a bid statement brokered astatine the Department of State Services (DSS) Headquarters connected September 9, 2025, informing that a nationwide onslaught whitethorn beryllium unavoidable.

In a connection signed by its President, Prince Williams Akporeha, and General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale, NUPENG placed its members nationwide connected reddish alert, urging them to hole for a imaginable resumption of the suspended concern action.

The national said the DSS-brokered resolution, attended by 3 national ministers and a Deputy Director-General of the DSS, affirmed the close of workers to unionise. However, NUPENG alleged that connected September 10, Dangote Group directed its motortruck drivers, galore of whom are long-standing members of NUPENG’s Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch, to region national stickers from their trucks.

According to the statement, the pursuing day, the drivers were further instructed to forcefully thrust into the Dangote Refinery to load products. They were denied introduction for violating the refinery’s loading regulations.

NUPENG condemned the alleged actions arsenic a disregard for authoritative institutions and the laws of Nigeria, informing that nary idiosyncratic should beryllium allowed to override agreements endorsed by authorities authorities.

The national called connected the Federal Government to forestall the misuse of information agents successful the quality and urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), civilian nine organisations, and planetary labour bodies to basal successful solidarity.

“By this statement, we are placing each our members connected reddish alert for the imaginable resumption of the suspended nationwide concern action,” the national warned, insisting that “wealth cannot spot anyone supra the law.”

NUPENG reassured Nigerians of its committedness to the nation’s progress, describing itself arsenic a patriotic and liable organisation.

As astatine property time, the Dangote Group had yet to respond to the allegations.

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