₦airaland Forum

GeneralDae:
This is a refinery. A very harzadous and risky environment. If you don’t pay health insurance and other allowances as alleged, then considering the location (Lagos Island), 400k is little. If he adds the benefits then he can maintain it at the 500k level. Again, this is 2025 with naira at 1450. Line managers should of course earn nothing short of 1.5 - 2 million currently.

ositadima1:
Again, what is currently attainable in similar workplaces — places like Indorama, fertilizer plants, and other factories? Don’t compare with oil companies; their pay has historically been higher because of foreign ownership and the fact that crude is sold in dollars, so production costs are also dollar-based.

If you were to start such a business yourself, you’d pay what’s realistically attainable on the ground, not some emotional figure. What are bank trainees paid, for example?

GeneralDae:
This is a refinery. A very harzadous and risky environment. If you don’t pay health insurance and other allowances as alleged, then considering the location (Lagos Island), 400k is little. If he adds the benefits then he can maintain it at the 500k level. Again, this is 2025 with naira at 1470. Even when naira was at (150 - 200) to the dollar, control room chief operators and line managers earned in the range of 500k to 700k already in NNPC (2013 - 2014), now they should earn nothing less than 2.5 million if the refineries start working.

GeneralDae:
How is my figure emotional? Even by industry standards that is low for a refinery when there are no additional benefits. Also, the location matters. I am not comparing them to Seplat and the likes who pay 3 million to graduate trainees ( these are upstream of course), I am comparing them to other refineries and I am saying given the expensive location (where accommodation is difficult), 400k doesn’t cut it. But 700k would be very okay. If there are added allowances and incentives then 500k minimum would do.

ositadima1:
LOL at this. My colleague who joined Aradel last year as an instrumentation engineer, with over 15 years of experience, earns about ₦3 million (though I’m not sure what he earns currently). Who told you a trainee in Seplat is earning ₦3 million? Please, let’s be factual.

Agbalowomeri:
Whichever way, 400k is a terrible salary

emmanuelewumi:
I don't think that is all inclusive of other allowances.


Even as terrible as it may be, why should anyone who knows his worth, be fighting to be called back.

Agbalowomeri:
Oga Osita this has nothing to do with living in a bubble. In my generation when we were starting out about 25 years ago, P&G boys were collecting 300/400k easily as young graduates. They could easily buy an SUV with 1 year savings. Ditto for bankers. Now, 25 years later what's the purchasing power of that same salary? I bet you, 25% will go into transport and 50% into feeding. There is just no way you would have anything left after a whole month of working. So technically, people are being fed enough just to keep them alive to work. That is slavery.

This is not just about Dangote but a general situation in the country. We never start the war against corruption. We are just playing

emmanuelewumi:
I don't think that is all inclusive of other allowances.


Even as terrible as it may be, why should anyone who knows his worth, be fighting to be called back.

emmanuelewumi:
I don't think that is all inclusive of other allowances.


Even as terrible as it may be, why should anyone who knows his worth, be fighting to be called back.

pluto09:
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/10/04/over-90-informal-sector-operators-have-no-capacity-to-pay-tax-oyedele/

handsomebolanle:
It’s alarming in the lever of Irrational thinking.
Comparing a security with a skilled worker and the basis of comparison narrowed to hazards. lol.
I Will ordinary ignore some post but mehhn… There needs to be a correction.

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Streetinvestor2:
U keep sounding very funny because u work in oil and gas industry. What is the hazard working in dangota refinery. Is the refinery going to explod.That is my problem with people like u.U like to feel ur profesion is so special than others. U think those security mean facing boko haram everyday jobs are not more hazardous than someone who is operating/monitoring machines.
If the problem with the workers was salary. Why didn't they approach management for increase.If the management refused.Thr life is not tired to the refinery. They had the option to resign.Is thr any job that does not come with different level of harzed.
I have someone with masters presently doing PhD.How much is innoson paying hin in his factory in Enugu. If he see that kind money na testimony. The is someone heading a department for production

GeneralDae:
This is a refinery. A very harzadous and risky environment. If you don’t pay health insurance and other allowances as alleged, then considering the location (Lagos Island), 400k is little. If he adds the benefits then he can maintain it at the 500k level. Again, this is 2025 with naira at 1470. Even when naira was at (150 - 200) to the dollar, control room chief operators and line managers earned in the range of 500k to 700k already in NNPC (2013 - 2014), now they should earn nothing less than 2.5 million if the refineries start working.

Streetinvestor2:
U keep sounding very funny because u work in oil and gas industry. What is the hazard working in dangota refinery. Is the refinery going to explod.That is my problem with people like u.U like to feel ur profesion is so special than others. U think those security mean facing boko haram everyday jobs are not more hazardous than someone who is operating/monitoring machines.
If the problem with the workers was salary. Why didn't they approach management for increase.If the management refused.Thr life is not tired to the refinery. They had the option to resign.Is thr any job that does not come with different level of harzed.
I have someone with masters presently doing PhD.How much is innoson paying hin in his factory in Enugu. If he see that kind money na testimony. The is someone heading a department for production

unite4real:
You are on point. I have always had this argument when people talk about hazard jobs.

Those high end jobs have fortified safety infrastructure and yet they say it's hazardous.

The ordinary okada riders and high way bus drivers jobs are more hazardous than even a pilot if you compare the rate of casualties between them.

GeneralDae:
In a refinery anything can go wrong. In NNPC then, we were provided PPE’s but only the helmet and safety shoes. We weren’t given masks but we inhaled dangerous chemicals sometimes.
Also, at a time while we were all close by, someone failed to control the reactor temperature using the valve as instructed and quickly left because his shift had ended. The guys in the control room had to come out and a little more delay may have eventually led to a fire outbreak. Stuff like that happen all the time in a refinery.
Most importantly, hazardous chemicals inhaled in a refinery kills slowly. The sulphur content leads to dangerous cancers over time. So a refinery job is truly highly hazardous.

GeneralDae:
In a refinery anything can go wrong. In NNPC then, we were provided PPE’s but only the helmet and safety shoes. We weren’t given masks but we inhaled dangerous chemicals sometimes.
Also, at a time while we were all close by, someone failed to control the reactor temperature using the valve as instructed and quickly left because his shift had ended. The guys in the control room had to come out and a little more delay may have eventually led to a fire outbreak. Stuff like that happen all the time in a refinery.
Most importantly, hazardous chemicals inhaled in a refinery kills slowly. The sulphur content leads to dangerous cancers over time. So a refinery job is truly highly hazardous.

unite4real:
You are on point. I have always had this argument when people talk about hazard jobs.

Those high end jobs have fortified safety infrastructure and yet they say it's hazardous.

The ordinary okada riders and high way bus drivers jobs are more hazardous than even a pilot if you compare the rate of casualties between them.

Potvalor:
It is also a skill-level issue. You can conveniently replace 100K Okada Riders across Nigeria within a day, but can you replace 100 Pilots within same time frame? Top jobs attract top talents (the first-class, best of the 2:1s after rigorous employment screening process), so it is understandable that their pay range falls in the top-tier. Same thing is applicable in every other Nation/Economy.

Not long ago Boeing Employees went on strike and shut down the company's operation for a better pay package. What was the final resolution? Did Boeing sack the staff? This is why I believe this Dangote Refinery issue could have been handled better. The final resolution isn't a “WIN” to Nigeria in my opinion. My final take on this topic.

mikeapollo:
By the way, why was the purchase and amount involved even disclosed? Afterall, he wouldn't be the only bank CEO that has that kind of house abroad?

GeneralDae:
In a refinery anything can go wrong. In NNPC then, we were provided PPE’s but only the helmet and safety shoes. We weren’t given masks but we inhaled dangerous chemicals sometimes.
Also, at a time while we were all close by, someone failed to control the reactor temperature using the valve as instructed and quickly left because his shift had ended. The guys in the control room had to come out and a little more delay may have eventually led to a fire outbreak. Stuff like that happen all the time in a refinery.
Most importantly, hazardous chemicals inhaled in a refinery kills slowly. The sulphur content leads to dangerous cancers over time. So a refinery job is truly highly hazardous.

freeman67:
Wow..!! See flexing for some jobs in the private sector ooo. Apart from maybe FIRS, CBN and NNPC. Majority of those working in Government establishments can not come close to all these figures I am seeing here at entry or even mid level self ooo. If you talk now them go say hazards but some people in the security sector being exposed to hazardous assignments and even die daily from them but if you see people amongst them earning up to 700k then they are the Ogas at the top on Level 15-16 about 20 year and above done on that Job already.

No wonder things no gree balance for this country.