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Dangote's $20B Refinery Shut Down by 800 Worker Protests - What It Means for Your Fuel Costs

Reading time: 2 min • Sep 29, 2025, 12:45 AM (UTC)

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  • Dangote's $20 billion refinery in Nigeria faces a shutdown a...

Apparently, building a $20 billion refinery is the easy part. Keeping 800 workers happy? That's where things get interesting. Dangote's massive Nigerian refinery - the one supposed to free Africa's most populous nation from fuel import addiction - just got its first reality check from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).

The union pulled the plug on operations September 28th after Dangote allegedly showed 800+ workers the door. Now the facility that was meant to be Nigeria's energy independence poster child is producing more headlines than petroleum p...

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