Gunfire has been reported during a protest at the Dangote Oil Refinery in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (Lagos state) on Tuesday morning, November 3. Company employees were holding a protest over salaries. Reports indicate one of the protesters has been shot by police.

According to information, the workers at the refinery have been for a week now protesting against harsh working conditions at the site of the ongoing construction site of the Dangote refinery. Some workers have also called on the management of the refinery to increase workers’ wages and salaries.

Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by the Dangote Group that is situated on 6,180 acres (2,500 hectares) is under construction in Ibeju-Lekki, Free trade zone near Lagos Nigeria. The 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) capacity integrated refinery is the largest single-train refinery in the world and it is expected to be Africa’s biggest oil refinery.

The construction of the Dangote refinery which started in 2017 was initially announced to be commission in 2020, but the Dangote Group has announced that its refinery would be commissioned by the end of the first half in 2021.

This is not the first time that construction workers at the Dangote refinery would down tools to protest against poor working conditions and poor pay. Such protests have contributed to the delay in the construction work.


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Army was deployed after the confrontation involving the police. No one was killed in Dangote Refinery.

The protesters in frame 3n4 who were reportedly killed are doing fine in the hospital after sustaining injuries.

The Army officer has calmed things down with his address to the crowd.

Nigeria police need to start sending all their personnels to compulsory human relations and skill & arms courses.

Why shotting protesters at any slightest provocation

TecM0:
Dangote is just too greedy

You hardly make sense with your comments
I've noticed you since a while now and
Calling you a stupid person is just too abusive

How is it dangote's fault that the salaries wasn't paid , arrangements have been made before the operation goes , definitely it's the construction company or the financial board that is oweing it's (staff) even though these people looks like casual workers.

Keep disguising as if you don't know that there's is corruption in the private sector..

Dangote is just too greedy

His trailer destroyed part of my sister's shop, and we held the driver, the man was basically in tears begging us , telling us he earns just 40k has family in sokoto.... After detaining the truck for 4 days calling all Dangote group contacts, we just had to let the man and the trailer go, he had nothing to eat, and still prayed 5 times a day in a spot we gave him


Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Coca Cola and all furtune hundred companies treat their company staffs really good and still make profit, the companies still keeps growing

And to the Idiot above me qouting me, common sense should tell you prompt payment of contractors means prompt payment of workers wether permanent staff or contract staff, should Nigerian citizens get mismanaged and abused by Indian/ Chinese contractors hired by Dangote, he should look into it


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blood everywhere this corntree stinks

if it is work related the protest should be within the work premises anything outside that they are on there own

Nawa..o
Everywhere just dey hot

With all the money when Dangote get, he nor fit pay salaries. Africans with greed n wickedness.

Wike is killing the people of obigbo, that is where our attention is now.

what is happening

There is this hatred for people doing well in Nigeria.

We don't know what is going on there and how contracts are nade and signed but pls stop spreading fake news all because of traffic

This country sef... This Police neva still learn lesson lata some fools go still dey pity dem wen hoodlums attack dem people wey get joy in using gun any aw should be dealt with...

TecM0:




Dangote is just too greedy

His trailer destroyed part of my sister's shop, and we held the driver, the man was basically in tears begging us , telling us he earns just 40k has family in sokoto.... After detaining the truck for 4 days calling all Dangote group contacts, we just had to let the man and the trailer go, he had nothing to eat, and still prayed 5 times a day in a spot we gave him


Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Coca Cola and all furtune hundred companies treat their company staffs really good and still make profit, companies still keeps growing




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Why should your sister's shop obstruct Dangote's truck?

AskProf:


Why should your sister's shop obstruct Dangote's truck?

Lol

This made me chuckle and laugh,

You'd make a bad lawyer my friend

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You forget that the indians have families back home and they spend on their currency rupees that's 30 k rupees just like Nigerians earning 35k

they will hot at innocent protesters, and cry when they see Boko Haram.

Wike is killing the people of obigbo, that is where our attention is now.

TecM0:


Dangote is just too greedy

His trailer destroyed part of my sister's shop, and we held the driver, the man was basically in tears begging us , telling us he earns just 40k has family in sokoto.... After detaining the truck for 4 days calling all Dangote group contacts, we just had to let the man and the trailer go, he had nothing to eat, and still prayed 5 times a day in a spot we gave him

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Coca Cola and all furtune hundred companies treat their company staffs really good and still make profit, companies still keeps growing

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I have said it time and time again Nigeria’s economy would be far better if we never had Dangote. His impact is so negligible compared to revenue he has been siphoning from Nigeria through political buhaha.

Across his African market the price of cement is the highest in Nigeria where he is technically a monopoly. Just wait till he is done with his refinery then you guys would start paying for fuel through your noses.

Boom triggered Happy men have done what they know how to do best..


Nigeria I hail thee

Doesn't the lack of value for human life bother people in this country!!

let no one deceive you, that refinery won't be functional in 2021 or 2022....foreigners treating is like slave in our own country and aided by our own people ......Chinese and Indians ripping us off and DANGOTE don't give a fuuuck about it

Refinery that is not even producing yer

Hmm

Na police way be that. Useless country that kill her citizens

Same format as tollgate, people protest, security forces come in and shoot them.