{"id":8384,"date":"2025-09-29T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:51:21","slug":"fg-intervenes-as-pengassan-moves-to-cut-off-crude-supply-to-dangote-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/fg-intervenes-as-pengassan-moves-to-cut-off-crude-supply-to-dangote-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Intervenes as PENGASSAN Moves to Cut Off Crude Supply to Dangote Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"472\">The federal government has stepped in to avert a looming strike by the <strong data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"361\">Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN)<\/strong>, which had directed its members to cut off crude oil and gas supply to the $20 billion <strong data-start=\"449\" data-end=\"469\">Dangote Refinery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"640\">The intervention came after PENGASSAN accused the refinery of sacking over 800 unionised workers and threatened to halt all supply operations from October 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"826\">At an emergency meeting chaired by Finance Minister Wale Edun, the government reassured Nigerians that fuel supply would not be disrupted and pledged to resolve the dispute urgently.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"828\" data-end=\"1011\">While PENGASSAN insists the refinery violated workers\u2019 rights, Dangote Refinery dismissed the action as \u201clawless and criminal,\u201d warning against interference in its supply contracts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1314\">Labour solidarity is building, with the <strong data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1083\">Trade Union Congress (TUC)<\/strong> threatening nationwide industrial action unless the sacked workers are reinstated, while the <strong data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1215\">Concerned Nigerian Consumers Forum<\/strong> urged the government to probe PENGASSAN\u2019s motives, warning of risks to national energy security.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1422\">The refinery, Africa\u2019s largest single-train plant, is central to Nigeria\u2019s fuel self-sufficiency agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has stepped in to avert a looming strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), which had directed its members to cut off crude oil and gas supply to the $20 billion Dangote Refinery. The intervention came after PENGASSAN accused the refinery of sacking over 800 unionised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Federal government intervenes in Dangote Refinery dispute with PENGASSAN to prevent fuel supply disruption and escalating labour unrest.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}