Tag: NUPENG

“Stop demonising Ɗangote”, Ndume tells NUPENG

Aminu Imam
Ndume tells NUPENG

Former Chief Whip of the Senate and current senator representing Borno-South, Ali Ndume, has asked key players in the oil industry, including the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the Depot and Petroleum Product Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) and others to embrace dialogue and resolve the face-off with Ɗangote Refinery. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Borno lawmaker said,  “I urge NUPENG, PENGASSAN, and all concerned stakeholders to engage in constructive dialogue with Ɗangote rather than inciting division and undue sensationalism  in the media”. Recall…

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Ɗangote dares NUPENG to unmask $18bn refinery squanderers

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Ɗangote dares NUPENG

The controversy between the Ɗangote Petroleum Refinery and the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), took a new turn on Friday when the Ɗangote Refinery asked the union to expose those behind the reported $18bn spent on government-owned refineries without results. In a statement, Ɗangote questioned why the refineries in Port-Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna remained comatose despite the colossal expenditure on turnaround maintenance and rehabilitation over the years. From Port Harcourt to Warri and Kaduna, the three refineries owned by the Federal Government remain idle despite repeated…

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NUPENG suspends nationwide strike after agreement with Ɗangote Group

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NLC strike imminent

A major industrial strike has been suspended, after the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment brokered a deal between the management and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG). The agreement, signed on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025, mandates the management of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Limited to immediately begin the process of unionising its employees. The company has been given a strict two week deadline, from the 9th to the 22nd of September, to complete the process. This resolution comes after NUPENG had issued a formal threat…

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Strike imminent today, as NUPENG, Tanker Drivers split over Ɗangote Refinery

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NLC strike imminent

…NLC urges Tinubu to step in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector has been thrown into turmoil, as a bitter labour dispute pits the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) against both the Ɗangote Group and its own Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch, raising fears of nationwide fuel scarcity. NUPENG insists it will shut down petroleum product lifting across the country as from today Monday, in protest against what it calls Ɗangote Refinery’s “anti-union practices, monopolistic agenda and indecent industrial relations”. Its leaders accuse the Ɗangote Group of…

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Fuel scarcity looms, as NUPENG, Ɗangote face-off festers

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Fuel scarcity looms

The stability in the distribution and availability of petroleum products being enjoyed by Nigerians is about to be aborted as a result of the seeming cold war between the management of the Ɗangote Refinery and one of the umbrella unions of workers in the oil industry, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG). NUPENG, in a statement jointly signed by Comrades Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale, President and General Secretary respectively, and issued to newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Union accused the management of Dangote Refinery of…

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NUPENG, electricity, maritime workers mobilise for planned Monday’s strike

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Nationwide strike

…Sea ports to be shut The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed its members to comply with the directive of the two labour centres to begin an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday. NUPENG’s General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale, in an issued statement yesterday, said the union was committed to ensuring total compliance with the directive. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) declared an indefinite nationwide strike to begin on Monday, to express their grievances over the proposed new…

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No functional refineries, no subsidy removal, NUPENG warns FG

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), has given the Federal Government conditions under which it will acquiesce to the latters planned removal of the subsidy on petrol. In a communiqu issued by NUPENG leaders at the end of the unions National Executive Council, NEC, in meeting Lagos the union told the FG to shelve its proposed move to remove subsidy if local refining of petrol is not put in place. It argued that subsidy removal without local refining capacity portends serious socio-economic implications on businesses and…

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NUPENG threatens nationwide strike over illegal activities of security agents, high-handedness

Aminu Imam

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (PTD-NUPENG) has threatened another strike over what they described as illegal activities and high-handedness of security agents, particularly the Military Task Force operating in the Port Harcourt zone of the Union. This may lead to a full-fledged fuel scarcity across the country. National Chairman of the PTD- NUPENG, Comrade Lucky Osesua told newsmen yesterday, in Abuja, that men of the Military Task Force operating in Port Harcourt burnt two trucks conveying HPFO, otherwise known as black…

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‘Only a Tinubu can break cabal holding Nigeria down’ Ex-NUPENG scribe

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A former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is the only living politician capable of breaking the cabal holding Nigeria down. Kokori, an APC elder in Delta State, while speaking with newsmen yesterday in his residence in the Ethiope-East local government area of the State, applauded Tinubus emergence as the partys flagbearer for the 2023 general election, saying, I dont think theres a better…

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Insecurity: “Recruit mercenaries; were tired of FGs condolence messages” – Kokori

Aminu Imam

An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former Secretary-General National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Union, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has declared that there is nothing wrong with recruiting foreign mercenaries to assist the Federal Government in the on-going war against terrorists across the country. Kokori, who noted that terror attacks in the country had reached an alarming and frightening proportion, said recruitment of foreign mercenaries to help combat terrorism is being done by other countries in the world, including the United States. According to him, It is…

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