In a two-minute documentary in early September entitled “War on Crude Oil Theft”, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) said it found and destroyed 93 illegal pipeline connections and 69 illegal refineries between July 15 and 21, 2023 in the Niger Delta. The NNPC documentary reminded Nigerians about the loss of at least 100 lives to a terrible fire incident in Egbema, Imo State in April 2022 when an illegal refinery went up in flames. These illegalities and avoidable deaths speak to the country’s culture of waste of human capital, natural resources and precious property. The exploits of NNPCL are at best peripheral, and a fire-brigade approach to solving Nigeria’s notorious cases of oil theft, illegal refineries and pipeline vandalism.

Nigeria depends on war-torn Ukraine for wheat and other cereal crops, yet its army, so good at spotting and destroying illegal refineries, have not done much to stop terrorists from killing farmers and animals destroying crops around Nigeria. Nigerian farmers live in internally displaced camps, while herders roam free with guns. Make no mistakes, illegal refineries are unlawful, and there is enough evidence to show that they contribute enormously to fouling the environment, just as gas flaring by multinational oil companies since the 1950s. But the high-rise 47% youth unemployment and run-away official corruption in Nigeria are major contributory factors to the booming illegal trade in oil refining, which has become so flourishing that heavy-duty trucks are known to load from the businesses.

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They're just fighting the south south and south east.

Nobody destroys illegal goldmines or skoll mines in the North and south west respectively

The thing weak me too oo

successmatters:


They're just fighting the south south and south east.

Nobody destroys illegal goldmines or skoll mines in the North and south west respectively

Leave region out of it jare. Even during GEJ, local refineries were destroyed

Wahala

We don't have working refineries because we were doing subsidized petrol...which means we were selling petrol below what it cost to produce.

Naturally that led to loss of profits, and then led to a clustermess of sabotage, losses, corruption (free government money is a side effect of subsidy...a corrupt government offical can make all sorts of budget for subsidy)...and eventual loss of refineries.

Ghana has two working refineries. Niger republic has one refinery. Both of them never had a subsidy. Their refinereis work.

The only African countries that have some sort of subsidy and working refinereis are Libya which produces as much crude as we do...for a population that is now at 8 million (ours is 200 million)....and Algeria. (diversified economy, close to Europe, lower population).

Illegal refinereis work because they make a profit. And their costs are low, ...they steal crude, they also use low cost equipment (which mess up the environment and your engine) and sell well, and cash out. If they had to buy crude and use standard equipment, fuel would be very expensive from them

You want good running refineries...let them sell at a profit. Niger sells fuel (before the coup) at N1024 per liter. Ghana was at N850. At the end of the day,it's the price they pay for working refinereis.

successmatters:


They're just fighting the south south and south east.

Nobody destroys illegal goldmines or skoll mines in the North and south west respectively

And those illegal mines are polluting the land of the North, depriving people of good farmland, and they are the reason why there are a lot of banditry and kidnapping and suchlike.

Yeah, them Northerners are enjoying. Am sure some of them would love it if the government kindly sent them a battalion of soldiers from Kaduna and Zaria to clean up house.

(Which they actually do at times).

Engineering lectures need to be sacked.

Are you people cursed with illegality ni?

That is how you established different baby factories all over the country because some people cannot give birth.

Don't let anyone deceive you.
Many western and OPEC countries have subsidies for their citizens.
And these subsidies are not just fuel subsidy. Health, education, agriculture.
Nobody came out to say free money from any government has ruined those economies.
They are well managed and regulated.

Nigeria fuel subsidy was shared among criminal politicians and their cronies in the name of marketing.The average Nigerian citizen is forced to fund the lifestyle of these criminals.

When they announced subsidy removal, it's also another falsehood. Subsidy was simply transferred from one group of scammers to another.

And the non political class will pay for it.

ConfidentialDoc:
Don't let anyone deceive you.
Many western and OPEC countries have subsidies for their citizens.
And these subsidies are not just fuel subsidy. Health, education, agriculture.
Nobody came out to say free money from any government has ruined those economies.
They are well managed and regulated.

Nigeria fuel subsidy was shared among criminal politicians and their cronies in the name of marketing.The average Nigerian citizen is forced to fund the lifestyle of these criminals.

When they announced subsidy removal, it's also another falsehood. Subsidy was simply transferred from one group of scammers to another.

And the non political class will pay for it.

Many of the Western countries pay heavily for the subsides through taxes at rates that if we implemented them in Nigeria, you would be angry with the government, and call them wicked

Also, many Western subsides are exporters of finished manufactured goods. Diversifed economies.

Of the OPEC countries that implement subsides, many of them produce the same or more crude than we do, for populations ranging between 1-40 million people.

And there is Iran which pays for subsides at the expense of a high debt, and severe economic issues. And Venezuela sells fuel at N10 and has many of the issues Nigeria has, only promax. Including japka to USA


If we want to pay for subsides, then we have to tax the 70% of Nigerians who do not pay taxes, and also producesomehting like 50-100 million barrels of crude at over 100 dollars per barrel...before we become like the Western countreis.

Also,

Yes, they should be bombed , in fact with the workers.


Illegal refineries are synonymous with oil theft, vandalism, oil leakage, environmental degradation, "knocked" engines of vehicles , economic sabotage, reduced income to country, pension/gratuity not duly paid, workers saalries not duly paid, infrastructural deficit e.t.c