{"id":75308,"date":"2025-09-10T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75308"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:01:46","slug":"nupeng-suspends-strike-as-dangote-agrees-to-unionise-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/10\/nupeng-suspends-strike-as-dangote-agrees-to-unionise-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"NUPENG Suspends Strike as Dangote Agrees to Unionise Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has suspended its planned two-day strike after reaching an agreement with the Dangote Group to unionise its drivers.<\/p>\n<p>NUPENG President, Williams Akporeha, confirmed the decision on Tuesday, saying the agreement was signed following a meeting convened by the Department of State Services (DSS). The Dangote team was led by Sayyu Dantata.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have suspended the strike. The Dangote refinery has agreed to unionise its drivers. We signed an agreement,\u201d Akporeha told our correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute had earlier led to tanker drivers refusing to load fuel on Monday despite an appeal from the Federal Government, sparking fears of supply disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has suspended its planned two-day strike after reaching an agreement with the Dangote Group to unionise its drivers. NUPENG President, Williams Akporeha, confirmed the decision on Tuesday, saying the agreement was signed following a meeting convened by the Department of State Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":75309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75310,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75308\/revisions\/75310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}