Rising from its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Saturday, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has declared a nationwide strike.
PENGASSAN in a statement directed all its members to stop offering services from 12:01 AM on Monday, September 29, 2025.
It also directed its members in field locations to withdraw their services starting from 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 28, 2025.
”All PENGASSAN members across all offices, companies, institutions, and agencies should withdraw all services effective 00:01 on Monday, the 29th of September, 2025.
”All IOC branches must ramp down gas production and supply to Dangote Refinery and petrochemicals,” the statement read.
The association also called for a prayer vigil.
“The prayer point should include a call to God Almighty to give courage to those in authority to rein in Dangote and his co-travellers on the need to obey the laws of our country. No man is bigger than our country; an injury to one is an injury to all,” the statement said.
According to the Association, during the strike period, no intervention would be entertained across field locations except where the safety of personnel and assets is at risk, adding that such clearance must be obtained from the National Secretariat.
PENGASSAN also directed that all gas and crude supply to Dangote Refinery be stopped immediately.
The development follows Dangote Refinery’s disengagement of about 800 workers, after attempts by some of its employees to form unions, snowballed into a major industrial crisis with PENGASSAN.