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[𝐃𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚 @Realoilsheikh]

𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲-𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚.

Some weeks ago, I wrote an appeal titled “𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐁𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥." In that message, I urged the young engineers affected by the Dangote Refinery–PENGASSAN dispute to remain patient, vigilant, and legally covered under the protection of the union and the @LabourMinNG Federal Ministry of Labour. I emphasized the need for documentation, fairness, and non-victimisation, since the communique signed between all parties clearly stated that 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞.

Unfortunately, what we are seeing today is the very opposite of that spirit of fairness.
Engineers; chemical, electrical, and mechanical, are being redeployed to road construction sites, stripped from their professional environments and reassigned to roles far from their training and job relevance.

Let’s be clear: this is not a transfer of function, rather it is a punitive redeployment. It serves no operational logic, only a political one, to humiliate and frustrate those who dared to speak up, and placing them on 6 months probations after which the same management would assess their performance and determine whether they should be fired or retained!

Such action undermines not only the commitments witnessed and signed by the @LabourMinNG but also the broader principle of industrial justice in Nigeria. When professionals are punished for seeking fair treatment, it sends a chilling message to all workers: that standing up for your rights in Nigeria is still a crime if it challenges powerful interests.

The engineers at Dangote Refinery gave their sweat, their youth, and their intellect to build one of the largest industrial projects on the continent. To repay that dedication with retaliation is a betrayal, not just of them, but of every young Nigerian professional who still believes in merit, dignity, and due process.

The @NigeriaGov @LabourMinNG must not play deaf to this. Silence would mean complicity. This moment demands courage, from the union, from civil society, and from all who believe in decency in the workplace.

We can disagree with unions; we can debate their methods. But we cannot normalize vindictive management practices disguised as “redeployment.” Nigeria’s future depends on protecting the dignity of its workforce, not breaking it.

#LabourRights #PENGASSAN #DangoteRefinery

[Sarki. @Waspapping_]

Nigeria’s Oil Wealth Is Being Stolen in Broad Daylight! Gaskiya, there is a plan to steal what belongs to us all and plunge 200M Nigerians into economic slavery. We shouldn’t allow this. Nigeria belongs to us all and not to a privileged few.

1. A coordinated scheme is underway to hand Nigeria’s oil assets, our economic lifeline, to a few powerful elites. This isn’t incompetence. It’s deliberate capture.

2. At stake: Nigeria’s 55-60% stake in Joint Venture (JV) assets, managed by NNPC Ltd for 200M citizens. That’s 1M barrels/day—$75M DAILY at $75/barrel. Gone.
3. The excuse? “Inefficiency” and “leakages.” But these assets are run by IOCs like Shell, Chevron, and Total—not Nigerians. Why not fix the leaks instead of selling the assets?
4. Compare this to Saudi Aramco:
• Privatized only 5%
• Kept 95% for citizens
• Reserved 3% of that 5% for Saudis only
Nigeria? Selling off 55% of OUR wealth to elites.

5. They’re pushing to amend the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), a law that took 22 years to pass, to legalize this heist. Experts call it reckless. I call it dangerous.

6. The cost? Another 500,000 barrels/day ($38M daily) could be lost, leaving Nigeria with just 300,000 barrels/day from 1.8M. That’s permanent poverty for 200M people.

7. Over 31 oil blocks are at risk. Plus, they’re targeting the Frontier Exploration Fund, killing future oil prospects in:
• Kolmani
• Chad Basin
• Sokoto
• Bida
• Nasarawa
• Benue
• Anambra
8. Why sabotage Nigeria’s future? Why amend a new law before it’s even implemented? Why shift assets from NNPC to NUPRC? It’s a setup for looting, like marginal fields.
9. Their “compensation”? A measly 5% of an environmental fund. An insult to Nigerians while they change fiscal terms in an industry planned 20-30 years ahead.
10. Turning NNPC into a “CAMA company” dodged oversight. Now they want NUPRC as both regulator AND commercial player? That’s not reform—it’s economic treason.
11. Where will the sale money go?
• Private jets
• Luxury cars
• Ghost projects
• Offshore accounts
Not to salaries or development. Nigeria will drown in debt. 💸
12. They’ll tax the masses to cover the shortfall while elites feast. This isn’t mismanagement—it’s betrayal of 200M Nigerians. Our oil. Our future. Our sovereignty. Walahi, this won’t Favour us as ordinary Nigerians.

[BIG JOE OF LAGOS✌️🇳🇬®️ @JosephOnuorah]

*HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF PENGASSAN AS A LABOUR MOVEMENT* :

🔥 *PENGASSAN: A Legacy Forged in Struggle, Not Submission* 🔥

For 46 unbroken years, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has stood as a pillar of resistance, dignity, and worker empowerment in one of the most volatile sectors in Nigeria's economy, oil and gas. This is not a casual union. PENGASSAN is the conscience of an industry, the spine of a workforce, and the shield against exploitation.

Born in 1979 in the crucible of military rule, PENGASSAN did not wait for democracy to find its voice, it was the voice of fairness, accountability, and human rights at a time when speaking out could cost you everything. Its members have fought and sacrificed not just for wages, but for respect, equity, and human dignity.

Through decades of economic sabotage, foreign exploitation, and internal mismanagement, PENGASSAN stood firm, making sure oil workers were never just seen as tools to be used and discarded, but as partners in Nigeria’s growth and stability.

✊ When refineries shut down, it was PENGASSAN that demanded answers.

✊ When benefits were withheld, it was PENGASSAN that fought back.

✊ When lives were lost to poor safety standards, it was PENGASSAN that held the line.

✊️We can go and on....

⚠️ A MESSAGE TO THE DANGOTE REFINERY:

Aliko Dangote did not build Nigeria’s oil industry. He did not stand in the trenches with workers when pipelines exploded, helicopter crashes, pensions were stolen, or when families were left broken with lovedones due to industrial neglect.

He now enters a space built on the sweat and blood of Nigerian workers, thinking that profit margins justify dehumanising labor practices? That because he owns the walls, he owns the people inside them?

No refinery, no matter how large, is too big to be held accountable.

PENGASSAN didn’t wait 46 years for a billionaire to come and rewrite the rules of engagement. The dignity of Nigerian workers is not up for negotiation.

🛑 You cannot gag voices that have roared through coups and corrupt regimes.

🛑 You cannot intimidate a union that has faced tanks, tribunals, and tyrants.

🛑 You cannot run a 21st-century refinery with 19th-century labor practices.

🛠️ WHAT PENGASSAN STANDS FOR — THEN, NOW, ALWAYS AND FOREVER:

Dignity in labor.

Fair wages and secure jobs.

Safe working conditions.

Transparency and accountability in the oil and gas industry.

Protection against corporate impunity.

Respect for the Nigerian worker, the real engine of this economy.

If Dangote wants to build a world-class refinery, he must also adopt world-class labor standards. Anything less is not investment, it’s modern-day industrial slavery and it is a NO, NO, NO.

LET IT BE KNOWN: PENGASSAN did not come this far to be silenced, sidelined, or sold out. The struggle continues, and history is watching.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER ✊✊✊
MY BROTHER, MY SISTER...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU!!!.

(Source: Godwin Omeje)

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

BREAKING: Starting on October 1, 2025, immigration authorities in Nigeria will begin taking action across the country against foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas or breached their entry conditions.

The enforcement action will be applicable to these groups of foreign nationals:

Holders of expired Visa on Arrival (VoA).

Holders of expired Single and Multiple-Entry Short Visit or Business Visas.

Individuals with expired Comprehensive Expatriate Residence Permit and Automated Card (CERPAC).

Foreign nationals who breach Nigeria's immigration regulations will face penalties, which may include fines for overstaying, deportation, and potentially being barred from re-entering Nigeria in the future

An overstay of under three months may result in removal from the country, a fee of $15 for every day beyond the allowed stay, or you may choose a two-year entry ban as an alternative.

For stays ranging from 3 months to 1 year, individuals may face consequences such as deportation, a daily fine of $15, or a choice of a 5-year ban on entry.

If the absence lasts for more than one year, it may result in removal and a potential re-entry ban of 10 years or a permanent restriction on entry.

[𝐃𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚 @Realoilsheikh]

@osazenoo @uroch94 I m sure we won't want investors that will come and exploit our work force. I have worked in different locations where laws strictly protect their labour force from exploitation. We should be more concerned about that.

[Jincheng @JinchengSuzuki]

The more Dangote Refinery Management try to connect the dots the more they separate them. The same Engineers you praised that they are better than the Indians are paid less and became saboteurs out of the blue. Is that how to compensate them for being the better than the Indians?

[Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital]

To be fair, you can't sack 800 🇳🇬 oil workers registered in a powerful trade union yet expect things to be the norm . 🇳🇬 wants a peaceful resolution

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

NLC has begun mobilisation in preparation for a nationwide industrial action against Dangote

[BIG JOE OF LAGOS✌️🇳🇬®️ @JosephOnuorah]

They told you the entire Dangote refinery will not work again and Nigeria will not have fuel again because some employees (less than 10% of total workforce in Dangote refinery) joined PENGASSAN.

And you believed it.

You are a risk to people around you.

You should be in chain!

[Lord Cutler Beckett 🇳🇬🇵🇸 @YahyaKabo]

Dangote to Nigerians: “You’re better than the Indian workers, you perform better.”
Of course because you bend over and accept exploitation. But the moment you demand basic rights or PPE? Mass sack.
And funnily, it all happened within days.

[Hafeesco @Abdul_charming]

Sir Jarus was right. The sacked workers will be recalled and compensated.

[Ami of Ph ❤️ @Scholarea]

6days on & a day off is modern day slavery. A day work in a refinery for shift worker is 12hrs. Now imagine working 12hrs in an highly inflammable environment, with no feeding allowance, HMO, even PPE for 6 fucking days? Lol. I work 12hrs for 4days & 4days off yet still exhausted

[Akin Olaoye @akintollgate]

When PENGASSAN turned off the pipelines in 1995 for 8 weeks, after Abacha attacked freedom of Association laws, my dad was head of Production Area C in Shell. I remember asking him if the strike will be short-lived, he said "just watch". Even a madman Abacha and his soldiers had to beg Las, Las!
You think say dem be NURTW! LOL....dey look

[PENGASSAN Dangote Refinery Branch @DPRP_PENGASSAN]

To our brothers and sisters across the entire Oil & Gas industry: Thank you.
​In our darkest hour, you answered the call. Your support didn't just come as aid; it came as a true source of strength and comfort. We are humbled by your unwavering response.

[Channels Television @channelstv]

Finance, Labour Ministers, NNPCL Meet With PENGASSAN Over Strike