Oil Workers Suspend Strike After Resolving Dispute With Dangote Group

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) suspended its nationwide onslaught yesterday aft reaching an statement with Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals management.
The statement comes aft days of onslaught enactment by NUPENG, which accused the Dangote Group of denying employees the close to articulation recognised labour unions.

The quality escalated into a standoff, prompting a reconciliation involution by the national authorities done the Ministry of Labour and Employment that ended successful a deadlock connected Monday night.
At a conciliation gathering by the minister, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, some parties held lengthy discussions that produced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed successful Abuja.
According to the resolutions, Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals formally agreed to let consenting employees to articulation registered unions.

The unionisation process volition statesman instantly and is expected to beryllium concluded wrong 2 weeks, betwixt September 9 and September 22, 2025.

The statement besides prohibits the instauration of a parallel national wrong the Dangote Group’s refinery oregon petrochemicals arm. Both sides agreed that nary idiosyncratic would beryllium victimised for participating successful oregon supporting the strike.

The agreement’s signatories are Sayyu Dantata and Otunba Jibrin Otan, representing Dangote Group; acting wide caput Comrade Benson Upah; and wide caput Comrade Nuhu Toro, representing the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC).
Comrade Akporeha Williams, NUPENG president; Comrade Afolabi Olawale, NUPENG wide secretary; and Falonipe, Amos. O, director, commercialized national services and concern relations, who signed for the curate of labour and employment, is an all-signatory to the agreement.

The MoU reads, “That since workers’ unionisation is simply a close successful enactment with the provisions of the extant laws, the absorption of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals agreed to the unionisation of employees of Dangote Refinery and the unionisation of employees of Petrochemicals, who are consenting to unionise.
That the process of unionisation shall commence instantly and beryllium completed wrong 2 weeks (9th to 22nd September, 2025), and it was agreed that the leader volition not acceptable up immoderate different union”,

It continued, “Arising from the onslaught notice, nary idiosyncratic oregon worker of Dangote refinery and Petrochemical volition beryllium victimised. Parties volition revert to the Honourable Minister of Labour a week aft the decision of the engagement. Based connected the MoU, NUPENG agreed to suspend the concern enactment immediately.”

How DSS Brokered Deal
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called disconnected its concern enactment aft the Department of State Services (DSS) brokered a truce betwixt the Federal Government, lipid manufacture stakeholders, and organised labour.

The resolution, it was gathered, followed a high-level gathering convened successful Abuja with cardinal authorities officials, representatives of Dangote Refinery, and leaders of large commercialized unions.
Those successful attendance included the Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun; the Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi; the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha; and the Dangote Refinery delegation, led by Alhaji Sayyu Dantata.

Also contiguous were labour leaders: Mr Akpouha Williams of NUPENG, Mr Benson Upah of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Dr NA Toto, mni+, of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
After hours of deliberation, some parties resolved to uphold existing labour laws, emphasising that employees indispensable not beryllium compelled to articulation immoderate national and should clasp the state to either affiliate with oregon diminution rank of immoderate labour body.

Other outstanding issues of contention were besides resolved, culminating successful each stakeholders signing a memorandum of knowing (MoU).
The statement instantly suspended NUPENG’s onslaught action, which threatened to disrupt petroleum proviso and organisation crossed the country.

Government officials hailed the result arsenic a important measurement towards concern peace, portion labour leaders reaffirmed their committedness to protecting workers’ rights wrong the boundaries of the law.