The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has ordered an immediate shutdown of gas and crude oil supply to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
In a letter signed by its General Secretary, Comrade Lumumba Okugbawa, the union accused the refinery of sacking unionised workers and pushing “misinformation” instead of constructively engaging the union.
PENGASSAN directed its branch chairmen — especially at Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company (NGIC), Chevron, TotalEnergies, Seplat, Shell Nigeria Gas, and Oando — to halt all gas and crude supply to the refinery and suspend loading operations to vessels bound there.
The move is in protest against what the union described as the refinery’s disregard for workers’ constitutional right to unionise.
Dangote Group responded by denying mass layoffs, claiming only a few workers were let go to prevent sabotage. It insisted that over 3,000 Nigerians are still employed and that union membership remains voluntary.
The company criticised PENGASSAN’s directive, calling it a “brazen, shocking display of lawlessness and criminality.”
