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Another year closes with fuel price drop
* Dangote’s price cuts face implementation challenges Sopuruchi Onwuka The domestic fuel market is set to end 2026 with slight fall in the prices of transportation fuels, especially the premium motor spirit popularly called petrol which fires cars and light…
Fact Check: Dangote’s claim of price drop is false!
Sopuruchi Onwuka The highly hyped drop in the price of petrol at the MRS retail stations attributed to a pledge to the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is false after all. Our field reporters who went out on…
Dangote Refinery mobilizes market for 1.5 bn-litre monthly fuel supply
Dangote Petroleum Refinery says it will supply one billion five hundred million litres of Premium Motor Spirit each month in December 2025 and January 2026 to ensure steady nationwide fuel availability through the festive season and into the New Year….
Dangote Refinery claims credit for fuel pump price drop cuts
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has pushed back against reports suggesting that the recent drop in petrol pump prices was driven by a Federal Government decision to halt the 15 percent import tariff. The company said the claim misleads the public and…
Nigeria’s petrol price in top range among OPEC peers
FG’s import tariff sets new benchmark for Dangote, others Sopuruchi ONWUKA With the 15 percent tariff slammed on imported petrol and diesel, the domestic petroleum market may have lost price stabilizing force; allowing Dangote and other smaller local refiners to…
Fuel import tariff: Dangote declares readiness for supply challenge
Pledges price stability during Yuletide festivities Sopuruchi Onwuka Africa’s leading petroleum refiner, Dangote Petroleum Refinery, has restated it resolve to sustain steady flow of key transportation fuels in the domestic market, assuring that its plant output capacity currently exceeds immediate…
Competition closed: Dangote to expand refinery capacity to 1.4 mbd
Targets $55bn annual revenue Sopuruchi Onwuka President of Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to expand the Dangote Petroleum Refinery from its current capacity of 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd. He said the…
Dangote Refinery: One Year, One Refinery, A Nation Transformed
[By Abiodun Alade] In just 12 months, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery has shifted Nigeria from fuel importer to regional energy supplier, stabilised its currency, slashed fuel costs, and sparked an industrial revival. As Africa’s largest refinery marks its first year…
Dangote slashes N30 off petrol gantry price
Sopuruchi Onwuka Amidst lingering volatility in petroleum prices across the globe, Dangote Petroleum Refinery says it is reducing loading price of petrol at its plants by N30.00, from N850 to N820 per litre. The new price which was announced on…
Dangote Refinery says gantry still pumping petrol at N850/liter
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has declared that its loading gantry remains in active service to customers. The company which issued a statement in response to reports of shutdown at the refinery, reassured the public that its activities remain…
