{"id":79798,"date":"2025-12-08T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79798"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:15:04","slug":"pengassan-dangote-dispute-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/08\/pengassan-dangote-dispute-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"PENGASSAN\u2013Dangote Dispute Deepens\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rift between the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has widened following the suspension of salaries for engineers sacked in September amid an ongoing labour dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations by The PUNCH show that the workers\u2019 salaries were stopped after many of them declined redeployment to other Dangote projects in Zamfara, Borno, Benue, Sokoto and other states.<\/p>\n<p>Some were posted to coal mines, concrete road construction sites, and rice mills, but most rejected the offer, relying on PENGASSAN\u2019s assurance of a negotiated settlement.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Dangote Group official confirmed the salary halt, insisting the company could not continue paying workers who refused available placements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who accepted redeployment have resumed. Why should we keep paying those who declined alternative employment?\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The affected workers, however, described the move as victimisation. The salary freeze followed an earlier wage cut in October.<\/p>\n<p>PENGASSAN said it is engaging the company to resolve the crisis amicably and avoid a fresh industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began in September when the union shut down oil and gas facilities nationwide, alleging that 800 workers were fired for joining the union, a claim Dangote refuted, saying only a few were dismissed for sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Following federal intervention, the company offered redeployment opportunities, with letters issued at its Ikeja office in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba The rift between the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has widened following the suspension of salaries for engineers sacked in September amid an ongoing labour dispute. Investigations by The PUNCH show that the workers\u2019 salaries were stopped after many of them declined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79800,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions\/79800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}