The Dangote Group has introduced that its Dangote Petroleum Refinery will start direct provide of petrol (PMS) to 11 states beginning Monday, September 15, 2025.
The disclosure was contained in a press launch issued through the Group’s official X account on Thursday.
Retail pump costs for the preliminary states are N841 per litre for Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, and Ekiti, and N851 per litre for Abuja, Delta, Rivers, Edo, and Kwara.
The gantry value is pegged at N820 per litre.
“Dangote Petroleum Refinery begins direct provide of PMS with free supply efficient Monday September 15, 2025
“New Gantry Worth is about at N820,” the assertion learn partially.
To help petrol station operators, the refinery will present free supply of PMS to registered stations within the 12 states, with plans to steadily broaden distribution nationwide. All station homeowners are invited to register to entry these advantages. The transfer is predicted to enhance petrol distribution and provide consistency throughout the lined states.
Backstory
Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Africa’s largest with a 650,000 barrels-per-day capability, opened in 2024 to cut back Nigeria’s reliance on imported petrol and strengthen power safety.
In July 2025, it acquired 4,000 CNG vans beneath a N720 billion funding programme, geared toward distributing 65 million litres of refined petroleum merchandise day by day, creating over 15,000 jobs, and saving Nigerians greater than N1.7 trillion yearly in power prices. The initiative additionally seeks to enhance effectivity within the downstream sector and revive dormant petrol stations.
- The refinery’s deliberate enlargement into nationwide petrol distribution was initially scheduled for August 15, 2025, however is now set to start on Monday, September 15, 2025. Preparatory challenges in early September included a three-day discover from the Petroleum Merchandise Retail Outlet House owners Affiliation of Nigeria (PETROAN), beginning Tuesday, September 9, to droop lifting and allotting of petrol over considerations about truthful competitors.
- Concurrently, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Pure Fuel Employees (NUPENG) went on a two-day strike, which was later suspended following a DSS-convened assembly attended by the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, and representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed to resolve the dispute, mandating unionisation of keen staff from ninth to twenty second September 2025, prohibiting the creation of another union, and guaranteeing no employee could be victimised as a result of strike.
Signatories included Sayyu Dantata (Dangote Group), O.Ok. Ukoha (NMDPRA), Ojimba Jibrin (Dangote Group), Benson Upah (NLC), N.A. Toro (TUC), NUPENG President Akporeha Williams, Basic Secretary Afolabi Olawale, and Amos Falonipe representing the Federal Ministry of Labour.
