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Lanretoye:
but when you go to Hausa land you know how to comport yourselves.

have you ever in your short life seen a northern threatening non indigenes to vote this or that ?

It's a very petty and low esteem move

You're a great guy. I hope this are better now 🙏 🙏 https://www.nairaland.com/8328894/im-frustrated-life-america...please-dont

12inchess:
I got a job a Dangote then for 150k in his cement company. The HR where trying to scam me. They said they will tell me the location of the job after I accepted the offer and quit my job for an interview that was in Lagos oooo. Unknown to me, the job was in Benue with no relocation allowance. But unknown to the mumu HR, me sef na lag boy through and through. I accepted the offer and didnt quit my job. He was sha asking me if I have put him my quit notice so I won't have a choice but to go with them. I told him yes. Once I found out the job was in Benue with no relocation allowance I dulled them and went back to my job. The HR was now calling me to curse me that I held up their spot. Awon oloshi user company. Last last all the candidates that took up the offer regreted it later. Even Dangote staffs there were whispering to me on the day of the interview that the job is a useless job oooo that I should better look at other options. Dangote na just Slave master. Nothing else. Anyway I'm in America now collecting dollars. Nothing concern me and him yeye slave business.

ricson11:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9i010rTAyY?si=sm0kxS9He9ShoMe0

The Lagos NURTW Chairman, Sego, sparks outrage after vowing to deal with anyone who votes against the APC, raising fears of political intimidation ahead of the 2027 polls.

This is indeed very sickling.

I have not heard this type of rhetoric from the hausa or the fulani or the Igbo or from the south south..... only the Yoruba sophistically intolerable all the time

Just like Peter obi said during his independence day speech -that the APC only brought upon Nigeria pain and division

Probably she had an underlying ailment and she did not come with her prescription drugs

So this man reproductive system has refused to rest and is jumping up and down like a irresponsible stud

I can pay 399k per month . Send her my number . Let's talk

BarrElChapo:
This is what I’ve been saying cos my own sibling works at the refinery. The way Dangote has controlled the media narrative on this issue is so crazy. Plus it was all the Nigerian workers that was sacked not 800. Infact my sibling didn’t join the union but was also sacked.

Yeah it’s true on the PPE, my sibling was the same one that bought her safety boot 😂 the company doesn’t provide one for them. I know the way Nigeria is they’ll not want to talk cos they’ll hope to be recalled back but Dangote refinery isn’t really an exactly fantastic place to work.

The memo said “All staff” mehn.. capitalism is a dangerous thing

26k usd a month ? This don't sound as true to me please

Terribly sad bad and Catholic . See jisom . Rushing to laugh

Anger is a bad character . Try all you can to avoid it

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Better , how can an embassy process 10,000 people a day for visa and not a single person got it many of you don't know United States of America is building their biggest embassy in the world in Nigeria in Ecuador atlantics city

I think this is a very wise decision taken by dangote so therefore if you sneak into the refinery and decide to join any of the above listed Union dangote is free to redeploy you to dangote salt or dangote sugar in Niger state to go and continue your unionism

Wike should be somewhere around the corridors of a jailhouse and not with the powers that be

There is actually hope for Nigeria if tinubu puts his house in order the sky is the limit

This is pure bully tactics. Unfortunately former President Jonathan is known to cow to bullying like this

In Nigeria's volatile labor landscape, the ongoing picket of the $20 billion Dangote Refinery by key unions like the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has sparked widespread debate. As Africa's largest private refinery, Dangote represents a beacon of industrial self-reliance, yet it's now ground zero for a fierce union showdown. This raises a pointed question: Why are these unions clashing with a private entity, unlike the more insulated world of private universities where lecturers sidestep the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strikes?

The flashpoint erupted last week when PENGASSAN accused Dangote Refinery of sacking over 800 workers—many senior staff—who opted to join the union. The refinery, operated by the Dangote Group under billionaire Aliko Dangote, allegedly viewed unionization as a threat to its operational flexibility, leading to mass terminations framed as "redundancies." PENGASSAN responded with an indefinite nationwide strike, shutting down gas supplies to power plants and refineries, which has already slashed Nigeria's power generation by over 1,000 megawatts and threatened fuel scarcity.NUPENG quickly aligned, while the NLC escalated by ordering a full mobilization for a broader strike, branding Dangote's actions an "anti-worker crusade" and a symptom of unchecked capitalist excesses.

At stake is more than jobs—it's the right to collective bargaining in a sector historically dominated by multinational oil giants. Unlike public refineries tied to government payrolls, Dangote's private status hasn't shielded it from union reach. Nigerian labor laws, under the Trade Unions Act, mandate recognition of unions in private firms once workers enroll, and oil unions wield outsized leverage due to the sector's chokehold on energy supplies.
PENGASSAN and NUPENG, covering junior and senior oil workers respectively, have long battled casualization and unfair dismissals across public and private divides, viewing Dangote's resistance as a slippery slope for the entire industry.
The NLC's involvement amplifies this into a national solidarity action, with President Joe Ajaero decrying regulatory failures in curbing corporate impunity.

Contrast this with Nigeria's education sector, where private university lecturers remain conspicuously absent from ASUU's protracted strikes. ASUU, formed in 1978, is the exclusive union for academic staff in federal and state-owned universities, focusing on public funding woes like earned allowances and infrastructure decay.
Private institutions, such as the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) or Covenant University, operate under distinct governance models with their own staff associations—often non-militant and contract-bound. These lecturers aren't ASUU members because the union's constitution limits affiliation to public institutions, leaving private academics to negotiate directly with proprietors without the ripple effects of nationwide shutdowns.When ASUU strikes—as it did for eight months in 2022—private universities chug along uninterrupted, highlighting a sectoral firewall absent in oil and gas.

This divergence underscores Nigeria's fragmented union ecosystem: Oil unions transcend public-private lines due to their monopoly on critical infrastructure, turning disputes into national crises.
Education unions, siloed by institutional type, rarely spill over. As mediation efforts falter—a recent meeting between PENGASSAN and Dangote ended in deadlock—and a court injunction is defied, the refinery standoff risks broader economic fallout.

For Dangote, it's a stark reminder that private ambition doesn't exempt one from labor's iron grip. In a nation where unions are both shield and sword, the refinery's fate could redefine worker rights in Africa's economic powerhouse.

Yes wicke said the truth here. If he travels to America he will be arrested in the airport and charge for money laundry

President tinubu should not be selfish with security in the capital. Look at what trump did in Washington DC he deployed the presidential national guard to guard the city.

Wike is not a technocrat , all he does is embezzlement of funds and political thuggery he has no view on how to manage security.

I think it's time for tinubu to take charge of the security of Abuja and if possible deploy the national or presidential guard to handle it

Most of the hotels and most of the real estate springing up on the island and across Nigerians are owned by the executives of this oil and gas unions.
All they do is party all night carry the best girls and embezzle Union funds that is all they do their eyes is on the golden eggs in dangote

I support this

I do not support the reinstatement of the Sacked workers. They are now like black sheeps

Lagos State is same size as Anambra . But Anambra is better than Lagos .

Lagos gets 2 times the entire igr of the SE, yet Lagos has no roads , no water , no street lights, no boulevards , no drainage system .

Lagos is the corruption capital of the world ...

Irresponsible Dotard

Yes you're very correct .. but we don't know if you guys are working for the well being of Nigerians .from 1978 to this day , we didn't see any good baby from the oil and gas sector

ogascomax:
You are only asking this question from a position of an ignorant person about what happens in Nigeria industries. We need stronger unions to stop some of this illegality going on where you can just hire and fire people for no good reason. Also for slavery salaries and subjecting staffs to difficult or impossible target.
All of you commenting do not know anything that is going on in Dangote regarding Nigerians workers there. Their welfare is extremely poor. While you guys a jumping and clapping for Dangote, the staffs are very happy. You won't write all these if you were working there. Dangote sacked all 85 staffs that helped Dangote during the start up. After a successful start up the rewards for all of them was sacking them then replacing all of them with Indians. He under pays his workers. Now he has sacked over 800 staffs for joining Union. Where is there no Union in the world. Lack of knowledge and information make you guys speak this way.
Union is what check the excesses of employers otherwise they will pay workers peanut, with disregard to safety and terrible working conditions.
If Dangote staffs or any other company subject their staffs to extremely bad working conditions based on risk assessment. It's Union that can intervene otherwise terrible CEO's will take advantage of such loopholes to stifle workers and they won't have a say.

Dey play

Dangote reserves the right to hire and fire. What truce are we talking about?

The chairman and chief executive knows what his books is saying. He can decide to employ whoever he chooses and fire whoever he chooses. It seems like PENGASSAN want entrepreneurs to be at their beck & call, to be afraid of them, they want to turn our entrepreneurs into cowards..

So that when they cough , both investors and the nation will catch cold

What I think is that the current government is not protecting entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Did I conclude they're indirectly using the Union to threaten entrepreneurs by the ballz?

I pray the family gets Justice. Three things that needs urgent reform before Nigeria can be called a country the judiciary the police force the health sector

I want to ask three questions
1) did pengassan or dapman borrow dangote money to build his refinery.

2) did dangote enter into any alliance or partnership with these two unions to run his refinery?

3) does the Nigerian labor law allow unions to bully entrepreneurs who willingly invest their hard earned money in business ventures