The Dangote Petroleum Refinery on the evening of Friday, 26 September, 2025 announced the suspension of petrol sales in naira, citing the exhaustion of its crude-for-naira allocation as the reason.
The refinery, which made this disclosure an email sent b to its customers at exactly 6:42 pm on Friday, 26 September, 2025 disclosed that the decision would take effect from Sunday, September 28, 2025,
The notice, signed by the Group Commercial Operations of Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, was titled “Suspension of DPRP PMS Naira Sales – Effective 28th September 2025”.
The company also asked customers with ongoing naira-based transactions to formally request refunds.
This latest development is seen as a move to unsettled marketers and raised fresh concerns about fuel pricing and foreign exchange pressure.
The announcement comes at a time the refinery is embroiled in a bitter dispute with labour unions over the alleged mass sack of more than 800 Nigerian workers, a development that has triggered outrage and calls for government intervention.
The suspension also coincides with heightened industrial tension at the refinery.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Friday accused the company of anti-labour practices, following the termination of hundreds of Nigerian workers.
Union leaders have vowed to resist what they described as “an unjust and insensitive corporate decision,” threatening nationwide solidarity actions if the matter is not address.
This is not the first time the refinery has suspended local currency transactions.
In March 2025, Dangote had briefly halted sales of refined products in naira, insisting that its allocations under the crude-for-naira programme were inadequate to meet growing domestic demand.
The decision then sparked concerns over the dollarisation of fuel sales in Nigeria, escalating prices at the pump to almost N1,000 per litre.
