‘Untie me, I want to join the jangolova’

Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams, in this monitored interview, spoke about the resolved conflict between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and Dangote Refinery.Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams, in this monitored interview, spoke about the resolved conflict between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and Dangote Refinery.

AFTER several hours meeting between the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, over the feud between the two parties and the sack of about 800 staff of Dangote Refinery, it has been resolved that the disengaged staff should be recalled and be deployed to other companies within the Dangote Group.

Nigerians have been thrown into darkness as the strike embarked upon by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, over disagreement with Dangote refinery has compelled distribution companies, DisCos, to engage in load shedding nationwide.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young, LAGOS The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has raised alarm over the ongoing action by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, warning that it constitutes self-help and amounts to economic sabotage capable of derailing Nigeria’s fragile economic recovery. Read Also: PENGASSAN, TUC after dues – Dangote; ‘no […]

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has raised alarm over the ongoing action by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, warning that it constitutes self-help and amounts to economic sabotage capable of derailing Nigeria’s fragile economic recovery.

IndustriALL Global Union’s Atle Høie, said: “We are disappointed at Dangote Refinery’s relentless and escalating anti-union campaign”

‘We only see the proof of these check-off dues in their opulent lifestyles. It is time Nigerians stood up against these enemies of progress’

Obi urged the Federal Government to act decisively, stressing that the crisis must be resolved in a way that safeguards the interests of all stakeholders.

Indications emerged yesterday that the federal government is making frantic efforts to resolve the feud between Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN over the alleged mass sack of union members and their replacement with Indians.

The management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery has berated the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), accusing the union of decades-long sabotage of Nigeria’s oil and gas sector and serving the interests of its leaders rather than ordinary Nigerians.

Some depots had increased prices to N870 per litre from N835 per litre following the suspension of sales in Naira

“Crude oil supply valves to the facility are also to be shut, while loading operations for vessels headed there are to be suspended.”

The announcement comes amid escalating disputes at the refinery, where labour unions have accused management of mass sacking.

The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, DAPPMAN, may have soft pedalled in its confrontation with Dangote Refinery, as the group yesterday sought collaboration with the latter.