JUST-IN: BUHARI ARRIVES AT DANGOTE REFINERY SITE FOR COMMISSIONING

On Monday morning, just a few minutes after 11 am, President Muhammadu Buhari arrived at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals site in Ibeju Lekki for the historic project’s commissioning.

It is anticipated that the occasion will significantly alter Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.

This Monday, President Buhari will inaugurate the Refinery with his counterparts from Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Niger, and Chad, according to LEADERSHIP.

Aliko Dangote, the richest person in Africa, founded the Dangote Refinery.

Over 100,000 people would be employed by the oil refinery, which has a processing capacity of 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) and is situated on 2,635 hectares of land in the Dangote Industries Free Zone in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.

The start-up of the massive project is anticipated to signal Nigeria’s departure from the league of oil-rich countries that are major importers of petroleum products.

Presidents of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma; Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo; Senegal’s Macky Sall; the Niger Republic’s Mohamed Bazoum; the Chad, Mahamat Déby; and a host of ambassadors are among those present at the historic event. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who will not be physically present, will nevertheless deliver his message of goodwill virtually.

As of the time this report was filed, all 36 state governors and the majority of governors-elect, as well as ministers, senators, and heads of industries in Nigeria and abroad, as well as major international bankers and multilateral organizations, had expressed a readiness to attend the ceremony.

Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect, is standing in for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, whose administration as governor of Lagos established the Free Trade Zone in Ibeju-Lekki, where the Refinery is located, in 2002.