Oil marketers to join NUPENG strike over dispute With Dangote Refinery

– NOGASA, PETROAN, NARTO contented Tuesday deadline

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja

Petroleum products marketers person threatened to retreat their services nationwide from Tuesday, September 9, 2025, if the Federal Government fails to resoluteness the ongoing quality betwixt the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Dangote Refinery.

The quality centers connected Dangote Refinery’s program to deploy 4,000 compressed earthy state (CNG)-powered trucks for nationwide organisation of its petroleum products.

At a associated property briefing successful Abuja, leaders of the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA), Petroleum Products Retail Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), and Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) warned that, portion they enactment the refinery’s success, it indispensable not travel astatine the disbursal of their businesses.

They urged Dangote Refinery to absorption connected operating its installation efficaciously portion allowing different stakeholders to thrive successful the downstream sector.

The President of NOGASA, Mr. Beneth Korie, expressed concerns that marketers would beryllium forced retired of concern if Dangote is allowed to proviso products straight to retailers.

Korie said: “NOGASA acknowledges and is arrogant of the refinery’s relation successful enhancing Nigeria’s petroleum industry. However, our members person raised concerns regarding the effects of nonstop proviso to end-users specified arsenic telecommunication sites, hotels, and operation companies.

As liable employers, we are peculiarly disquieted astir the nonaccomplishment of proviso opportunities and occupation losses that could jeopardize livelihoods crossed the organisation worth chain. We formally requested a gathering with Dangote Petroleum Refinery to code these issues, but we person yet to person a response.”

He warned that marketers had nary prime but to see withdrawing their services nationwide successful solidarity with NUPENG if the substance remained unresolved.

“It is hereby directed that each lipid and state suppliers to operation companies, industries, hotels, and telecommunication sites nationwide should retreat their services effectual tomorrow, September 9, 2025, pending erstwhile the substance is resolved,” helium declared.

Backing the strike, PETROAN President, Mr. Billy Gillis-Harry, said marketers were acting to support jobs successful the sector.

Describing the Dangote Refinery arsenic “our pride,” Gillis-Harry stressed the value of corporate success: “We privation Dangote Refinery to beryllium successful, but we privation to win with him. Every conception of the manufacture should beryllium successful—whether it is NARTO with transport owners, PTD of NUPENG successful complaint of drivers, NOGASA supplying diesel and dense substance to industries, oregon PETROAN, the past captious mile, ensuring prime products scope retail outlets astatine affordable prices.

There volition beryllium occupation losses if this program goes ahead. We don’t privation to sack anyone, which is wherefore we are crying retired present for authorities intervention.”

On his part, NARTO National President, Mr. Yusuf Lawal Othman, warned that tanker owners who presently run astir 30,000 trucks would suffer their investments.

“While we admit and admit caller investments successful petroleum distribution, NARTO powerfully rejects immoderate program for escaped organisation of petroleum products. Such an attack is unsustainable and a deliberate effort to undermine thousands of autarkic transporters who signifier the backbone of Nigeria’s organisation network.

At present, NARTO members run much than 30,000 trucks crossed the country, employing thousands of drivers, assistants, and work providers. These operations prolong millions of dependents and are supported by large fiscal commitments from banks, marketers, and depot owners,” helium stated.

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