The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced ambitious plans to expand its processing capacity from 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd. Once completed, the facility will overtake India’s Jamnagar to become the largest refinery in the world. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, made the announcement during a media briefing in Lagos on Sunday. He said, “We are expanding the Dangote Petroleum Refinery from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million...

Seven council chairmen in the Kwara South Senatorial District have agreed to shut down their cattle markets, following security reports. The Chairman of Ifelodun Local Government Area in Kwara State, Hajji AbdulRasheed Yusuf, disclosed this in the Newskeg programme of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ilorin. Yusuf said it was discovered through intelligence reports that informants come to the cattle markets at night to pass information to bandits. “We...