DANGOTE GROUP LAY OFF ABOUT 500 STAFF -- STAFF CRY

News reaching us has it that over 500 people were ignominiously retrenched last week while more are still likely to be booted out from the Dangote Agro Allied and Sack Company based in Oba Akran, Ikeja area of Lagos.

Our Source asked rethorically, You may wonder why the industrialist is taking Nigerians for a ride with numerous vacancies here and there, a source who spoke to us anonymously said “it’s all gimmick to claim superiority, to be seen as being ahead of others. Didn’t you read it the last time how he recruited graduates as drivers? It all has political undertone, we face hell in this company.

The last time someone fell down from the top of the tank and died, a paltry sum of N120,000 was given to the wife, how would that solve the problem of the woman with the kids the deceased left behind.

This source also hinted us about a certain fraud perpetrated by one of the top managers at Dangote Sacks, Mrs. Wene Gabriel-Ode, who was alleged to have used laid off staffs document to claim their entitlement at Sigma Pensions...We shall file this report as soon as possible.