By Ademola Adekusibe
October 28, 2025.
Engineers earlier disengaged by the Dangote Refinery following the dispute between the company and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have been offered redeployment to other Dangote Group projects across the country.
The affected workers, including several graduate trainees dismissed during the crisis, have now been invited to collect new letters of re-employment or reassignment to different project sites.
Some of the engineers have been posted to coal mining projects in Benue State, while others are being deployed to concrete road construction sites in Borno and Ebonyi States. Additional redeployments include rice processing facilities in Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto, and Zamfara States.
According to one of the redeployment letters, the affected engineers are required to resume within 14 days of receiving their letters or risk forfeiting their positions.
An excerpt from one of the letters reads:
“Based on your performance at the assessment and subsequent interviews held with you, we are pleased to engage you as Engineer Trainee (Mechanical Engineering) for the coal project we are executing at Okpokwu, Benue State.
“You will undergo classroom and hands-on training in the construction, commissioning, and operation of our Coal Project at Okpokwu, Benue State, for a period of two years. The objective of the training is to impart skills and prepare you for a position of responsibility within the organisation.”
The letter also stated that either party may terminate the trainee engagement with one month’s notice or payment in lieu of notice.
The development signals an apparent reconciliation effort following the internal crisis that led to the earlier dismissal of several refinery staff during the dispute with PENGASSAN.
