eleko1:
If this story is true,Una shud look @ the direction of the State commissioner of finance/accountant not Aregbe.It is probably computation error..Aregbe still remain one of the best gov in NG but for dis workers salary crisis.Hope they solve the problem ASAP

In what way is he the best governor? For ur information, there's no commissioner in Osun state since his re election.

Working @ offshore or most especially as a sailor has its pros and cons....but i'll disagree with ops that the listed jobs might make a spouse cheat. I felt that fidelity on the spouse's side can save the marriageno matter the distance.

And besides, what excuse will you give to the ones that cheat even as they see themselves on daily basis.

[/b]NB: Most offshore companies have this strong policy that prohibits the presence of sex workers onboard..the act is done mostly on the sailor's discretion and not the companies.[b]

espn:
OP you want to give some satan BP? Those that hate good news..

How is fast breaking a good news...and I felt that we have millions out dere breaking the fast also which to me is based on thier belief.

Though #babaonechance# said there's nothing like subsidy...APC scammer of the century

Image123:


Power and other ministries have improved because everyone is sitting up and making an attempt to work.



With your exposure, you ought to know and appreciate the point of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. This is what Buhari has achieved in his first week or so of travels and meetings with Chad, niger, Cameroun. And Benin. You are also aware though ashamed to accept he news of the $21million that was given to the Multinational Joint Task Force by the Buhari governmant. Not forgetting the $5million given by the US to the same cause. These are not things that GEJ put in place. MNJTF was comatose and lacking direction before Buhari. Foreign armies were simply doing how they liked at will on Nigerian soil, even South African military men, NE was like no man's land. Things are different and better now. Even the commercial section of the Maiduguiri airport is now functioning, and our army is no more fleeing from boko haram. They are no more complaining to Reuters and BBC about unpaid salary and lack of weapons and morale. Boko Haram is no more reigning over local governments and deposing emirs and displacing Nigerian citizens, towns and villages. We are staying put and fighting back. Take that news to your mentors. And yes, G7 did offer support, this was not achievable under President Jonathan and i recall how Nigerians and pained government officials were whining and murmuring like America their god has failed them, who do they turn to. Some even excused government's failure then on that premise.



i thought Volks Wagon opened shop recently, it was on nairaland frontpage too.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/volkswagen-revives-assembling-operations-in-nigeria-unveils-new-vehicles/
On local content and policy direction, check
http://www.nta.ng/2015/07/08/ministries-brief-president-buhari-on-their-activities/
You are also aware of the CBN directive which is geared at encouraging local production and investment. Why are you saying NOTHING is happening. Are you unaware of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) that started off on Saturday, where 1000 entrepreneurs(mostly Nigerians) were empowered to start business? Stop sleeping and deceiving people that no new industry or investors have plans to come in.

I guess you expected the workers in the power sector not to sit up even as being run by a private body?


I thought local govts and some other towns were being recovered during the awakening 6weeks of the previous administration. Have you asked yourself why boko haram boys are winning right now upon the time when PMB took the helm of affairs.


Volkswagen and other car manufacturers came into existence two months ago I guess as we all knew that babagoslow is yet to have his cabinets in place and there's no known policy that would have encouraged investors.


It's better you guys stop all this lies and propaganda that brought you into power and get things done and give glory to whom it's due.

APC has never been a political party right from time...it's jst the coming together of some disgruntled greedy politicians.. alias Association of Provoked Cheaters.. you can't expect much from them so far majority of them have their personal ambitions...

Am I the only one Noticing Okupe and co putting on red...is it some form of uniform or what?

adioolayi:

These are some of the functions of a pilot...
making sure all information on the route, weather, passengers and
aircraft is received;

using that information to create a flight plan, which details the
altitude for the flight, route to be taken and amount of fuel required;

ensuring the fuel levels balance safety with economy and
supervising the loading and fuelling of the aircraft;

making sure all safety systems are working properly;

briefing the cabin crew before the flight and maintaining regular
contact throughout the flight;

carrying out pre-flight checks on the navigation and operating
systems;

communicating with air traffic control before take-off and during
flight and landing;

ensuring noise regulations are followed during take-off and landing;

understanding and interpreting data from instruments and controls;

making regular checks on the aircraft's technical performance and
position, on weather conditions and air traffic during flight;

I won't give you the source....It's just like a driver jumping to the wheel without checking basic safety practice... you don't need to be an engineer to know the basic thing. I have decided not to follow out insult anymore...I know you've learnt something today...Enjoy your day

Nawa for you ooo...person dey correct you, you still dey do strong head...all the functions you google searched are mainly navigational checks by the pilot prior to his departure....and it's not his duty to check for mechanical faults which are the responsiblity of the engineers...the engineers clear the aircraft and certifiy it fit to fly before it even gets to the terminal.

Na people like you dey get expo in exam hall and write rubbish down without double checking if the points given to you are on point or not...

[b][/b][color=#990000][/color]STOP THE WEED BRO

teepsee:
Big lie. How com it's on a blog only, can't find it on any news site.



Muchweeee cheap nonsense. Na only lights I see for that pics oo.

Next!!!

You're so onpoint...all this bloggers with their un verifiable news and the ones on nairaland that rush to comment without reading through some posts properly all in the name of FTC rush I hail una.

Why putting the blames on the pilots when there are ground crews and air traffic controller, it could have been the fault on the side of the ground crew and air traffic controller and not the pilots as claimed by some guys up there.

And moreso, looking at the angle of the collision i.e Emirates' wing colliding with Hak air tail means that the aircrafts are yet to be on the runway and might just be clearing from the boarding gate to commence her taxing before take off. Then if that's the case, the ground crew controlling the aircraft is at fault and not the pilot.

Abi aircraft sef don get side mirror for the pilot to see his back wey I never hear of?

Alimtoheeb:
True be told, i stay in osun and i know how he transform by beloved state.

Also from Osun state...it'll be a pleasure if you can enlighten me more about the so called transformation?

Generalkorex:


half a loaf is better than none.
And some heavy internet user will finish dat 1gb in a month.

1gb in a month...i dey exhaust 3gb before the month runs out...100 for 1gb in 15days...

#Team introvert all the way...great to know you're one of us winnie

So the aircraft sef pass 10....wonder what they are doing with all these even as the country doesn't have a drone as a national carrier

PMB should really look into some wastages that has occurred in the past. Cos seeing refinery's resuscitation all of a sudden is a clear signal that NNPC needs complete over hauling. I imagined where MT Oloibiri and MT Tuma disappeared to all of a sudden at Lagos offshore. He should re open the 10bn fraud involved with MT oloibiri

150billion reduced to 120bn as if that's not outrageous...what's the essence of budgeting such outrageous amount for just 469 members? I don't care if you have 10 aides or whatever you claim

I wonder where all these tribalist put their brains...we've got to look beyond being tribalistic on some issues. If we are celebrating some Nigerians making feat outside the country and failing to celebrate them achieving such in Nigeria then we have a long way to go. This man and some other Nigerians were sent out of the country on scholarship by the government to come back and impact the knowledge gained but many of them stayed outside the country developing those countries with their knowledge. Imagine the spate of development that would have been achieved if these men came back. And we have some people like Dr Abalaka whose project have not being encouraged by the government.

That guy in blue suit though

Jaideyone:
refer to the post above yours.
do you know why our refineries have not been working?
it's simply because the people importing fuel have decided to sabotage our efforts to make the refineries work. A month of serious work on those refineries will give results that will wow all Nigerians

If you claimed that sabotage of the refineries has been the reason for their ineffectiveness, I won't argue much with you on that. But come to think of it, what magician will make the refineries that have been neglected for years to work within a month to its full capacity?

Europe doesn't follow with your number 1 fact... cos it ended with E as u can see...and besides the 7th continent is Oceania not Australia

Simitrendy:
your administration tried at least in infrastructure but not in workers welfare please sir we do regard u as the AWO of our time but d way u are governing now

See one of them...in what way can he be compared to AWO? And what are the major infrastructure put in place by him? He's talking of school construction is that not part of his responsibility and besides most of the structures he claimed was constructed can be comfortably done by a responsible local government chairman...if you claimed he tried in infrastructure with all the elephant projects he started in the state and eventually indebted the state then I don't know what to say....maybe you're talking about his ORI OLOKUN and TALLEST DRUM that has no economic value

charix:
He's a bastard scammer. He should submit his findings to the WHO let's see what'd happen.

I bet if this is coming from an American you'll embrace it without confirming if it passed through WHO or not....can you come up with a research yourself instead of condemning a person's work?

Expected to see people praising PMB for this news....never knew president Buhari has become a magician to make the refinery work within 2 weeks of his inauguration even as we knew he's yet to really stay in the country for a full week... that's how they spewed lies then that he constructed 4 refineries during his first tenure...

On May 29, Muhammadu Buhari will take office as President of Nigeria. Expectations are high as most Nigerians expect the coming government to wave a magic wand and make all their problems disappear. The Buhari campaign which ran on a ‘CHANGE’ mantra made numerous promises to Nigerians during the campaign.
Buhari’s campaign promises as presented by Vanguard
On Politics and Governance:
I, Muhammadu Buhari, believe that our politics is broken. Our nation urgently needs fundamental political reform and improvement in governance more transparency and accountable. If you nominate me in December, 2014 and elect me in February 2015, my administration will:
1. Initiate action to amend the Nigerian Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to states in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit;
2. Strengthen INEC to reduce, if possible, eliminate electoral malpractices in Nigerian’s political life;
3. Attract the best and brightest of our sons and daughters into our politics and public service by aggressive recruitment of private sector people, academics, and professionals within
Nigeria and in the Diaspora through internships, fellowships, executive appointments, and special nomination to contest elective offices;
4. Prevent the abuse and misuse of Executive, Legislative and Public offices, through greater accountability, transparency, strict, and implementable anti-corruption laws, through strengthening and sanitising the EFCC and ICPC as independent entities;
5. Amend the Constitution to remove immunity from prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases;
6. Restructure governance for a leaner, more efficient, and adequately compensated public service sector, while promoting effective participation of the private sector for more robust job creation programmes to employ the teaming youth.;
8. Reform and Strengthen the Justice System for efficient administration and dispensation of justice with the creation of special courts for accelerated hearing of corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism and similar cases of national importance;7. Require full disclosure in media outlets, of all government contracts over N100m prior to award and during implementation at regular intervals;
9. Fully enforce the Freedom of Information Act l so that government held data sets can be requested and used by the public and then such data sets be publish on regular basis;
10. Amend the Constitution to require Local governments to publish their meeting minutes, service performance data, and items of spending over N10M.
Security and Conflict Resolution
On National Security and Defence:
I will urgently secure the territorial integrity of the nation. I will never leave the defence of the nation in the hands of Hunters, Children, and Civilian JTF through the following:
1. Urgently address capacity building mechanisms of law enforcement agents in terms of quantity and quality as this is critical in safeguarding the sanctity of lives and property;
2. Establish a well trained, adequately equipped and goals driven Serious Crime Squad to combat insurgencies, kidnapping, armed robbery, ethno-religious and communal clashes, nationwide
3. Consult and amend the Constitution to enable States and Local Governments to create city, Local government and State Policing systems, base on the resources available at each levels, to address the peculiar needs of each community. I will therefore work with the National Assembly to set and revised, when needed, boundaries of operations, for Federal, State, and Local government policing units, through new Criminal Justice legislation to replace the Criminal Code, the Penal Code and the Police Act.
4. I will push for more robust support in the Security and Economic stability of the West-African sub-region and African Continent as a whole. I will seek and maintain close and frank relationship with ALL of West Africa; Special relationship with South Africa and its Sub-region; UK, USA, Canada, EU, Asia, and the Middle East .
On Conflict Resolution, National Unity, And Social Harmony:
I will;
1. Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help prevent, mitigate, and resolve civil conflicts within the polity;
2. Bring permanent peace and solution to the insurgency issues in the North-East; the Niger Delta; and other conflict prone states and areas such as Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Borno, Abia, Taraba, Yobe, and Kaduna in order to engender national unity and social harmony;
3. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations from documentation requirements in our identification of citizens and replace these with State of Residence and fashion out the appropriate minimal qualification for obtaining such a state of residency, nation-wide.
On Foreign Policy:
I will;
1. Make regional integration a priority within ECOWAS including free trade with a view to ensuring that common tariff currency are in use by the end of my term in office, under Nigeria’s guidance and leadership, base on the size of its market force;
2. Maintain a strong, close and frank relationship within the Gulf of Guinea, the Commonwealth, South Africa and the rest of the world.
3. Establish a special relationship with the leading emerging markets like Brazil; Russia, India and China (BRIC) and other strategic partners around the world.
The Economy & Infrastructure Base On the Economy:
I will;
1. Maintain sound Micro and macro-economic policy environment, and run an efficient government and preserve the independence of the Central Bank;
2. Restore financial confidence in the citizens and the world, by putting in place a more robust monitoring, supervising, and regulating of the financial institutions;
3. Make our economy one of the fastest growing emerging economies in the world with a real GDP growth averaging at least 10-12% annually
4. As at 1999, Nigerian rate of unemployment stood at about 8%, today it is estimated from official statistics to be close to 30%. I will embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and skills acquisition scheme for graduates along with the creation of Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to create at least 5 million new jobs by 2019. A Small and Medium Enterprises Development Commission will be created for this purpose. I will also encourage State Governments to focus on employment creation, by matching everyone job created in the same state.
5. Integrate the informal economy into the mainstream and prioritize the full implementation of the National Identification Scheme to generate the relevant data;
6. Expand domestic demand and will undertake associated public works programmes to achieve this goal;
7. Embark on export and production diversification including investment in infrastructure; promote manufacturing, through Agro Based industries; and expand and promote sub-regional trade through ECOWAS and AU;
8. Make Information Technology, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our economy, by reviewing the present reward system, which is based on certification, to that based on skills, competencies, and performances;
9. Balance the Nigerian economy across regions by the creation of 6 Regional Economic Development Agencies (REDAs) to act as sub-regional hubs in order to promote healthy regional competitiveness;
Put in place a N300bn Regional Growth Fund with an average of N50bn in each geo-political region; to be managed by the REDAs, to encourage private sector enterprise and to support places currently reliant on only on the public sector, to migrate to a private sector reality;
Amend the Constitution and the:
10. Land Use Act to create freehold/leasehold interests in land along with matching grants for states to create a nationwide electronic land title register on a state by state basis;
11. Create an additional middle-class of at least 4 million new home owners by 2019 by enacting a national mortgage single digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier houses as well as review the collateral qualification to make funding for home ownership easier, with a 15 to 30 year mortgage terms. This will equally help our banking system migrate from short to long term perspective of their role in sustaining the economy.
12. Create a Social Welfare Program of at least Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the demonstration of children’s enrolment in school and evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability.
13. Provide allowances to the discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for Twelve (12) months while in the skills and entrepreneurial development programmes.
14. Equate N1.00 to $1.00
On Agriculture:
I will;
1. Modernize the sector and change Nigeria from being a country of self-subsistence farmers to that of a medium/large scale farming nation/producer;
2. Create a nationwide food inspectorate division with a view to improving nutrition and eliminating food-borne hazards
3. Inject sufficient funds to the Agricultural sector to create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans at nominal interest rates for capital investment on medium and commercial scale cash crops;
4. Guarantee a minimum price for all cash crops and facilitate storage of agricultural products to overcome seasonal shortages of selected food crops.
5. Move the nation to an all year round small, medium, and commercial farming through a coordinated integrative irrigation of our existing dams as well as creation of more dam to collect the over flooding waters, nationwide.
6. Revive our Agricultural Research Institutes that are in a state of comatose;
7. Review and strengthened Veterinary practices nationwide.
On Infrastructure:
I will;
1. Review the Public Private Partnership (PPP) enabling environment with a view to addressing the legal, regulatory and operational bottlenecks, challenging the effective administration of the system, by introducing enabling legislation. In addition, I will create a National Infrastructural Development Bank to provide loans at nominal interest rates, exclusively for this sector;
2. Generate, transmit and distribute electricity on a 24/7 basis whilst simultaneously ensuring the development of sustainable/renewable energy, by 2019.
3. Embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a Public Private Partnership that will
(a) ensure 5,000km of Superhighway including service trunks and
(b) building of up to 6,800km of modern railway completed by 2019;
4. Enact new legal and regulatory frameworks to establish independent regulation and incentives to accelerate public and private sector investment in seaports, railways, and inland waterways;
5. Embark on PPP schemes that will ensure every one of the 36 states has one functional airport, with all 21st Century safety tools for effective commercial air travel.
On the Oil and Gas Industry:
I will:
1. Revive and reactivate our minimally performing Refineries to optimum capacity;
2. Make the industry and Nigeria one of the world leading/cutting edge centres for clean oil and gas technology; also producing leading world Oil and Gas technologist, scientists, and owing mega structure installations, drilling, processing, and production facilities and engineers. These facilities and scientists will be supported with the best services and research facilities.
3. Fully develop the sector’s capacity to absorb more of the nation’s new graduate in the labour market. The sector will be funded to produce more home-grown, but world class engineers, scientists, technologist, etc.;
4. Modernise the NNPC and make it the national energy champion. I will consider breaking it up into more efficient, commercially driven units; and may strip it of its regulatory powers, so as to enable it tap into international capital market;
5. Enforce the government master plan for oil companies to end flaring that pollutes the air and damages the communities and people’s health and ensure that they sell at least half of their gas produced within Nigeria;
6. Speedily pass the much-delayed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and ensure that local content issues are fully addressed
7. Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of LNG through the creation of strategic partnerships.
8. Stabilise oil price
The Society & Human Capital Development On Education:
I will;
1. Fully review provisions of the Universal Basic Education Act with emphasis on gender equity in primary, secondary school enrolment whilst improving the quality and substance of our schools, through outcome based education, that address the individual, family, and societal roles in education; and the associative skills and competencies that go with these responsibilities;
2. Targeting up to 20% of our annual budget for this critical sector whilst making substantial investments in training quality teachers at all levels of the educational system;
3. Implement a performance based education, predicated on outcomes, skills, and competences as against the current certificate based qualification. I will adjust the reward system accordingly too. This way, exams malpractice and certificate forgery will be resolved once and for all. Young men and women interested in real liberal arts education, based on a true understanding of scientific, the humanistic, and the social sciences will fill our classrooms to be prepared for future leadership of the nation;
4. Enhance teacher training and improve the competence of teachers in the light of the 21st Century and beyond understanding of the learner types, intelligence types, as the multiple assessment types, in order to open up learning for all our children types. The era of one student type will give way to an all learner type for our children and young people as well as adults who want to return to the classroom to sharpen their skills, competencies, and sensibilities. This re-engineering of our education will be followed with a clearly thought out and vigorous national inspection programmes;
5. Make learning experiences more meaningful for children as the nation’s education will no longer be a preparation for life, but life itself. Our children will be democratised for education, rather than be educated for democracy. This view of education will make educating our children more cost-effective in the long run;
6. Provide One Meal a day for all elementary/primary/Almajiri schools That will create jobs in Agriculture, Catering, and Delivery Services
7. Develop and promote effective use of innovative teaching methods/materials in our schools;
8. Ensure a greater proportion of expenditure on university education is devoted to helping our youth to understand the juxtaposition of Science, Technology, the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
9. Establish at least six new universities of Science and Technology with satellite campuses in various states. These six universities should be fully equipped with ICT technologies in order to attract and encourage small and medium scale ICT enterprises after their university education;
10. Establish technical colleges and vocational centres in each state of the federation;
11. Provide more conducive environment for private sector participation in all levels of education. Re-authorised the NUC, TETFUN, JAMB, etc, Acts to enable Private institutions of Higher learning to benefit from research funds and programmes that will serve the national good;
12. Establish six centres of excellence to address the needs of special education;
On Healthcare:
I will;
1. Prioritise the reduction of the infant mortality rate substantially; reduce maternal mortality rates to the levels acceptable by the World Health Organisation; reduce HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases drastically and improve life expectancy by an additional 10 years on average through our National Healthy Living program;
2. Increase the number of physicians from 19 per 1000 population to 50 per 1000 through deliberate medication education as epitomize by nations such as Ghana. I will increase national health expenditure per person per annum to about N50,000 (from the less than N10,000 currently);
3. Increase the quality of all federal government owned hospitals to world class standard by 2019;
4. Invest in cutting edge technology such as tele-medicine in all major health centers in the country through partnership programmes with communities and the private sector;
5. Provide free ante-natal care for pregnant women; free health care for babies and children up to school going age and for the aged; and free treatment for those afflicted with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;
6. Boost the local manufacture of pharmaceuticals and make non adulterated drugs readily available.
Set an effective prosecution and punishment systems, for those importing or adulterating drugs in the country.
7. The enhancement of the Epidemiological Units / Centres for Diseas Control to meet up with Global standards in containment of disease outbreaks, proper vaccine storage and research;
8. Create an Insurance Policy for our Journalists as the nation faces hard times and our Journalists face more dangers in the discharge of their investigative work, to educate Nigerians in their rights and responsibilities.
9. Ban medical tourism by our politicians from May 29, 2015.
On Youth, Sports and Culture:
I will;
1. Provide the opportunities such as setting up functional recreational facilities, Library with e-services, Community Centers, in collaboration with States, Local Government Authorities, Local Development Areas, etc for youth to realize, harness, and develop their potentials to the fullest, in order to facilitate the emergence of the new generation of citizens, who will be committed to the sustenance of good governance and service to the people and the country;
2. Establish Zonal world-class sports academies and training institutes and ensure that Nigeria occupies a place of pride in global sports and athletics;
3. Revive and restructure the Nigerian Football League and put incentives in place to make it as competitive as other national leagues
4. Put in place measures to identify talents early and ensure their participation in local and international games to enable them to be true professionals;
5. Help as well as mandate schools and communities to create neighborhood playgrounds/sports centre. I will create matching support funds for communities to acquire the needed equipment to develop skills and competencies;
6. Assist Nollywood to fully develop into world class movie industry that can compete effectively with Hollywood and Bollywood in due course. I will support the creative and performing arts with the necessary environment where by our great entertainers do not end their lives in abject poverty as is currently the case

This guy is really great with his uncommon transformation

duduade:
Toolz must be very stu..pid for saying she doesn't know what omorogun is in english... buh she can blow grammar on radio... even if she doesn't know she should have just said it how she knows... All these fake girls running around with her fat hips... buh m sure she knows what shoki is.. o I remember shebi na she talk say she be virgin? Rubbish

Trash of the century...is it wrong to admit you know what you actually don't know. And if she said it anyhow, I believe you'll still be the first person to criticise her for saying the wrong thing. And besides, English language was not her mother tongue in the first place

If not for the oil involved with NNPC, NIMASA should have been the first on the list, that 5th position doesn't suit NIMASA but the 2nd spot at least.

Prof Jega has done his best so far. He should honorably leave when the ovation is still loud, and the fear of his successor shouldn't overwhelm him cos we still have people of good quality in the country that can surpass his achievement.

Khd95:
[center][/center]Op na lier oooo

he said he flew from london-boston nd he went ahead nd say'while on d train'



ogbeni shey london trains dy fly ni






I tink d CEO of nairaland should introduce E-flogging 2 plank Op like dis one

Does that mean there's no train connecting other parts of London to Op's final destination?

at op...how many times una wan paste this pix

tobtap:
...buhari built them... imagine if all successive governments did the same..we wont be having fuel scarcity issues

I guess you'll retract your statement if you research further about the construction of the so called refineries. Cos i'm yet to really see any infrastructural project done by him during the time he was busy dashing out jail terms.

Flets:
Our biggest problem as a nation is illiteracy and our mob mentality. That is why corruption thrives.

Nigerian government has never ran any organization right... Its always run aground because of the unproductive mindset of an FG employee. NNPC, NITEL, Railway corporation, NEPA etc

As such, any attempt to have the FG run refineries will be an utter failure and I don't need a sooth sayer to say that.

Secondly, these refineries were built on archaic process modules in the 70s and 80s and no attempts have been made by subsequent governments to upgrade to newer technology.

Repairing these refineries at this time is like trying to fix a 1975 peugeot truck whose spare parts and accessories have long been stopped in manufacturing by the vendor. Any attempt to try to fix the refineries will require paying more for it to the equipment manufacturers fabricate custom made equipments to fit our moribund refineries.

The cost of fixing these refineries will build two new refineries each.... Then why fix them? Only the heavy ends will be economic for an entrepreneur at the moment.

The Way Forward
Take away fuel subsidy and issue refining licenses to renowned downstream companies. The FG can get into a JV agreement to retain ownership like is done in the upstream and exploration industries.

In the long run, FG can afford to sell crude to the local refineries at subsidized rates for local consumption. The employment and business prospects of the downstream is enormous. But we need relative peace in the SS region for these to be viable.

GEJ was headed this exact path but we lot were too blind to see.

you're so onpoint with this post...the way forward is to remove fuel subsidy and encourage deregulation of the sector...it's just painful that Nigerians are yet to really understand how beneficial these policies are to the economy