Strike: MURIC Urges Oil Unions To Key Into Dangote’s Vision

As efforts to extremity the onslaught enactment called by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) implicit a disagreement with Dangote Refinery, a faith-based quality rights group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has urged the unions to cardinal into Dangote’s imaginativeness of reducing hardship for Nigerians done the debased terms of petrol.

The union’s grouse has been that Dangote Refinery has adopted anti-labour practices by barring unionisation astatine its refinery and seeking to predominate the lipid proviso chain.

MURIC’s laminitis and enforcement director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, issued a connection connected Tuesday calling unions to soft-pedal, saying this is not the champion clip to spell connected strike.

While noting that Nigeria was conscionable coming retired of the woods owed to the Tinubu administration’s economical reforms, it said a onslaught successful the lipid assemblage astatine this constituent could derail them and instrumentality america backmost to the acheronian days of substance shortages.

“We person seen the bully effect of the emergence of a section backstage refinery successful the past fewer months. We saw however 1 litre of petrol, which utilized to outgo N1,300 aft removing the subsidy, came down drastically. It said it is present N860 oregon N900, depending connected location, aft Dangote refinery came to the rescue”.

MURIC appealed to the unions to let Nigerians to bask the afloat benefits of a section refinery that is already being celebrated worldwide.

Ethiopia and Dangote Refinery precocious signed a $2.5 cardinal woody to physique a monolithic fertiliser works successful Ethiopia. The United States imported implicit 2 cardinal barrels of Dangote’s pitchy substance successful March 2025.

“MURIC subscribes to the halfway rule of utilitarianism, which is the top happiness for galore people. We truthful impulse the unions to cardinal into Dangote’s imaginativeness of reduced hardship for Nigerians done the debased terms of petrol.’’