Africa’s giant oil refinery located at the Lekki area of Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos will begin operations in December, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man, told Financial Times on Saturday. The plant, Dangote said, will take delivery of six million barrels of crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and will start with the processing of 350,000 barrels per day. The US$19 billion (N15,236,480,000,000) facility, which is not yet operational, can produce about...

In about a month, keke, the Nigerian-speak for tricycle, would no longer ply the road of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has said. Wike said instead of tricycles, there would be buses and taxis for public transportation to combat the high rate of “one chance” crimes. ‘I assure you that once the buses and taxis are on the road, the problem of “one chance” will be...

President Bola Tinubu has said that his past and present accomplishments as governor and now president make him deserving of a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Speaking at the 10th German–Nigerian Business Forum in Berlin earlier this week, Tinubu said his reforms as Governor (1999–2007) that made Lagos State the fifth-largest economy in Africa and paved the way for him to lead Africa’s most populous nation is the reason he deserves the...

The Yuletide season might be tough for no fewer than 5,000 civil servants in Nigeria. They are likely not to receive their December salaries, raising concerns about how they will fare as the country is in the grip of an economic depression. The national president of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Tommy Okon said the affected workers have discrepancies in their dates of first appointment and birth. “The physical verification exercise...