NUPENG Threatens To Resume Suspended Strike Over ‘Breach Of Agreement’ By Dangote

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to resume its suspended nationwide strike, accusing the Dangote Group of reneging connected a caller statement connected workers’ rights.

The improvement is coming hardly 2 days aft the national signed an statement with Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals that ended weeks of faceoff with the conglomerate implicit its refusal to uniosise workers.

According to the national connected Thursday, the resolutions reached and signed connected September 9 astatine the Department of State Services (DSS) bureau attended by 3 national ministers and elder information officials had already been flouted by the Dangote management.

Despite the MoU, matters came to a caput arsenic NUPENG alleged that Alhaji Sayyu Aliu Dantata, a elder Dangote executive, instructed motortruck drivers who are long-standing members of its Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) subdivision to region national stickers from their vehicles, a determination the national described arsenic a nonstop usurpation of the pact connected unionisation.

According to the union, matters further escalated erstwhile drivers attempted to participate the Dangote Refinery to load products contempt not gathering national regulations, starring to a standoff with NUPENG officials.

NUPENG president, Williams Akporeha, accused Dantata of flying implicit the country successful an chopper earlier calling successful naval unit “ostensibly to crush the national officials.”

The national warned that specified actions showed disregard for some authorities institutions and the regularisation of law.

It called connected the national authorities to forestall information agencies from being utilized arsenic tools of intimidation successful labour disputes.

“We telephone connected the authorities not to let the Navy and different information agents, being paid by the resources of this country, to beryllium utilized with impunity against the laws and radical of this country,” NUPENG said.

It urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), civilian nine groups, and planetary labour bodies to basal successful solidarity, insisting that nary individual, careless of wealth, should beryllium seen arsenic supra the law.

The national said its members had been placed connected “red alert” for the resumption of onslaught enactment if the concern persists.

“This is to alert the wide nationalist and the authorities of the national republic of Nigeria that notwithstanding the solution reached and signed astatine the bureau of the DSS with 3 ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Deputy Director General of the DSS successful attendance connected the close of unionisation of the Workers, Alh Sayyu Aliu Dantata connected Wednesday, 10th September, 2025 instructed each his Truck Drivers who are NUPENG-PTD members for respective years to region the Union Stickers from their trucks yesterday.

“Today, Thursday, 11th September, 2025, helium instructed them to forcefully thrust into Dangote Refinery to load and Union officials stopped them from entering the Refinery to load due to the fact that their trucks violated Union loading rules and regulations.

“We are by this connection placing each our members connected reddish alert for the resumption of the suspended nationwide concern enactment and calling connected the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, each Regional and Global Working radical and Civil Society Organizations to emergence successful enactment and solidarity against this menace of the Capitalist world,” the NUPENG President stated.