It directed all its members in various offices, companies, institutions, and agencies to cease all services starting at 12:01 AM on Monday, September 29, 2025.
This resolution was contained in a statement following the Association’s National Executive Council, NEC, meeting on Saturday.
The Association urged all its members stationed in various field locations including all control room operations, panel operations, and outfield personnel to withdraw their services beginning at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 28, 2025, and start a round-the-clock prayer vigil.
It said that the prayer is a call to God to make those in authority to rein in Dangote and his co-travelers on the need to obey Nigeria’s law.
According to the Association, during the strike period, no intervention whatsoever would be entertained across field locations except where the safety of personnel and assets is at risk, adding that such clearance must be obtained from the National Secretariat.
PENGASSAN also directed that all processes that involve gas and crude supply to Dangote Refinery be let off immediately.
”All PENGASSAN members across all offices, companies, institutions, and agencies should withdraw all services effective 00:01 on Monday, 29th of September, 2025.
”All IOC branches must ramp down gas production and supply to Dangote Refinery and petrochemicals.
“The prayer point should include a call to God Almighty to give courage to those in authority to rein in Dangote and his co-travelers on the need to obey the laws of our country. No man is bigger than our country, An injury to one is an injury to all,” the statement said.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know how productive this strike will be because Dangote never admitted to sacking them because of joining a union.He alleged sabotage which could mean different things at anytime
ReplyDeleteMaku will still Ku. All this drama cannot undo decisive developments as things have changed. When importers coalesced to rob the nation for decades, rubbishing the efforts of the modular refineries and ganging up with labour to ensure the government owned refineries only made billionaires and not fuel, where was the call for government to wade into the market and disrupt signals? Who should have been at the forefront to stop the hemorrhaging of Forex, watering down the value of the Naira, costing millions of middle class jobs and making pensions and benefits worthless if not labour? But longer throat is a disease.
ReplyDeleteThese actions will make employers pick up more bad habits and will now close branches instead of sacking individuals who join unions. Prepare to start businesses that serve "expatriates" because India will open a second branch in Nigeria. Chinese will have estates in virtually every city. What will that look like for pensions, taxes, employment opportunities and the rest for Nigerians?
It is left for the ex staff to prove they were sacked for joining a union when those who didn't join were let go. This was said about the UAW strike last year and it was unfounded flack in return because again, emotions. The cleaners, HR, accountants, safety staff, and those indirectly benefiting from Dangote without joining anything have been thrown off and labour wants to start off 2027 by making it an unprofitable December, coaxing government to put out a fire the union started - with what? The time is coming when government will need to save the unionists themselves from the anger of ordinary Nigerians who don't miss NITEL and don't use NIPOST but end up shoring them up. I gasped when Tinubu announced the budget reality instead of leaving them to calculate it - they started salivating seriously. Any noise from labour about favourite governors still not complying with the current or previous minimum wage? NO.
This union punishing employers who didn't sack anybody will only make the compliant employers more affordable for Dangote to buy on credit. Na then the real suffer go enter gear. I wonder what the ex staff are telling their wives and children at home.
Also ,trust the union to blame government for their lack of strategy. When in 2 years, the electricity assets as well as the refineries are on sale to serious people issuing shares, Nigerians will know the real cabal and why they didn't have a single issue when Buhari was projecting his personality on the economy. The reforms on electricity and taxation have passed. What FG is taking, state governments won't want to risk, restricting citizens to jobs that won't determine power supply as states control their generation and distribution.
The is the same way the real monopoly in oil and gas choked headlines with diesel scarcity to run Otedola out of town but he didn't have the pockets or backing to pull a Dangote at the time. This is the same way the kerosine stories of early 2000s were trumpeted by NUJ for reasons that became clearer.
Dangote has just the one refinery that he has to power himself. Others can import from anywhere in the world and can partner with anyone. It's the side with the better business plan that will win. Workers should let the big dogs slug it out and not use their family's stability to enrich Shylocks in khaki singing nursery rhymes.
Nigerian youth, understand what is on ground and talk to labour so that actual labour laws can favour you and keep jobs here. This is not about bored people blocking the roads for exercise and follows online You are being phased out before AI compliance because you are embracing emotions instead of critical reasoning.
About the long, fact-based comments that help you learn so you can converse with some depth and understanding, you're welcome. Someone has to help.
Sick people that are feeling played out of the game of subsidy still looking of avenue to make life unbearable.
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