Road users lament bad state of Eleme Akpajo refinery road

The U.S Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) recently approved a one million dollar grant for the engineering design of a 20,000 barrel per day modular refinery on Tomaru Island in Lagos.

Nigerian oil company, Petrolex, plans to build a 3.5 billion dollar, 250 thousand barrel a day refinery at the Petrolex Mega Energy City in the Ibafon area of Nigeria’s Ogun State.

Fuel pricing - Govt cannot dictate price to Dangote refinery - LCCI

Dangote oil refinery - Graduate engineer trainees return after overseas training.

Africa's richest man, man Aliko Dangote will consider listing his oil refinery to account for half of his conglomerate's assets on the London Stock Exchange, after it comes onstream next year, as his focus shift to oil and gas from in late 2019, a senior executive Dangote Group told Reuters.

Analysts say the 12 billion-dollar Dangote refinery could double Nigeria's oil revenues when it comes on board in 2020. Temilade Aduroja, sub-Saharan Africa analysts at Renaissance Capital joins CNBC Africa to discuss this and more.

Nigerian minerals company Kian Smith has begun constructing the country's first gold refinery, which is expected to more than triple its capacity within five years after operations begin next June, an executive at the company developing it said.

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man wants to make Nigeria independent of oil imports. But the oil refinery he wants to finish in 2020 raises questions about sustainability. The World Bank's IFC gave Dangote a loan, though the UN organization promised to end financial support for oil and gas beyond 2019.

West Africa correspondent Fanny Facsar talks to DW about the world's largest refinery project in Lagos, Nigeria. Behind it is Africa's wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote. But the World Bank is also supporting it - despite pledging to heavily reduce investment in fossil fuel projects.

The modular refinery has a production capacity of 12,000 BPD

Edwin Devakumar, Group Executive Director at the Dangote Group says they are confident that the refinery will be completely built and ready to start by the end of 2020. For an update on the Dangote refinery, he joined CNBC Africa’s Esther Awoniyi for more.

The Federal Government has reiterated its support for the $12bn Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical through feedstocks and off-takers of products to add value to the nation’s economy.