•House of Reps leaders visit Dangote refinery Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has rejected claims that petroleum products from his refinery are substandard. Dangote rejected the allegations yesterday when the leadership of the House of Representatives visited and toured the refinery located at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, reports C...
There was a fire outbreak today at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos. Reacting to the incident, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, disclosed in a statement that the fire has been contained and there is no cause for alarm. The statement reads: “We have swiftly contained [&he...
•Arrested soldiers with Military police The Nigerian Army, today, said it has dismissed two soldiers, Corporal Innocent Joseph, and Lance Corporal Jacob Gani, accused of stealing armoured cables at the Dangote refinery on April 14, 2024. It was earlier reported how the soldiers entered the facility in an Acura jeep but were caught at the [&hel...
•Kyari The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has said the Port Harcourt refinery will commence operations in two weeks time. Kyari, who appeared before Senate ad-hoc committee investigating the various Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) Projects of the Nigerian Refineries, said over 450...
•Late Herbert Wigwe The Chairman and CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has named the road leading to his Lagos refinery after the late Herbert Wigwe. Recall that the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings died alongside his wife and son in an helicopter crash in California, the United States of America, reports Nigerian Tribune. [&helli...
•Port Harcourt refinery The federal government has said the Port Harcourt Refinery is 80 per cent completed and would produce two million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, and 2.2 million litres of diesel per day upon resuming operations. In a statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations in the Federal [&helli...
•Dangote Refinery The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has issued tenders to sell two fuel cargoes for export, the first from the newly commissioned refinery, trading sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Nigerians have been eagerly looking forward to the release of products from the $20bn Dangote refinery after it was inaugurated in Ma...
•Port Harcourt refinery Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited says it has completed the supply of over 475,000 barrels of crude oil to the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC), through its Bonny Oil & Gas Terminal (BOGT). This, according to a statement signed by the Media Relations Manager, Abimbola Essien-Nelson,...
•Dangote refinery Indications have emerged that lingering regulatory approvals have stalled Dangote Petrochemical Refinery’s plan to release aviation fuel (Jet A1) and diesel for sale in the Nigerian market in January, findings have shown. One week after the January 31 timeline set by the management of Africa’s largest refinery to begin sale o...
•Dangote refinery The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has confirmed the registration of oil marketers as its distributors. Dangote Group said today that it had registered three associations of marketers in the Nigerian oil sector. In a statement on its X today, the Dangote Group listed the marketers to include members of the Depot and Petroleum Pro...

