The nigerian govt cant invest in building of refineries because it is currently enslaved by IMF conditionalities which control and dictate nigeria's economic policy - all of which was made possible by Okonjo Iweala and Obasanjo in 2006.

The government's inability to maintain existing refineries(few built by nigerian engineers exist though in sorry state) is as a result of corruption and greed!! that's why the nigerian govt hiked up the price of petrol (claiming they were removing a non existent subsidy)

-Investing in building refineries requires lots of energy which is lacking in Nigeria.Generators are heavily used in nigeria as a source of power.


Now why would any oil company (Shell) run away from building a ref?
As it stands, the fact that none of the oil majors is willing to touch refining business in Nigeria should tell you that the profit margins are rather low and thus do not justify the investment level.
The Nigerian Government knows this.

http://www.vanguardngr.c...inery-in-nigeria-shell/
http://www.gtforum.com/g...inery-divestments-story
“Refinery margins have deteriorated.

-There is also lack of faith in the Nigerian government's ability to do anything right.
If Shell says it doesn't want to build refineries, then hope is lost because it is the more competent member of the partnership, despite being the minority one.The Nigerian Government doesn't have a stake in SPDC. It has a 55% stake in the joint venture agreement with Shell and a few other operators

When a government doesn't perform, then people reduce their expectations of it down to zero and place their hopes in shell.

Read below link.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/09/nigeria.shell.cable/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29

May God save Kenya.We have Oil in Turkana.

The above facts came from nigerians themselves.


@ murchir.I heard about the tea packaging.
Branded locally and trend set to continue till all regions are covered.

Folks, this arguements do not make sense as it half truths and hearsay, you are basing you arguement on what you read and believe and not the reality.
How much of Nigeria or west africa do you know? Is it just sitting in Nairobi to read stories about a place that makes you informed and up to date about the happenings in other parts of Africa ? That is mostly what most of you folks in Kenya do.

For your info Nigeria has 3 refineries:-

Kaduna establised in 1980
Warri established in 1978
Port Harcourt Established in 1965.

That is my final word on this as there is no need participating in blind arguement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/..._oil_refineries#Nigeria


Best Regards

@young..with the 3 refineries, why do you still import petrol and diesel? Are the refineries working under-capacity?

At present only 10 % of rural households and 40 % of the country’s total population have access to electricity. The Nigerian Energy Commission and the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria have been tasked with generating a solar-powered solution for the remote rural dwellers not served by the national power grid.

Nigeria exports electricity to neighbouring Niger via a 132 kV interconnection constructed in 1976.

The Nigerian government is in the process of privatising existing facilities.

It has been reported that NEPA is to be split into 30 units to facilitate its privatisation. The current NEPA is to be broken into smaller units to make it more manageable and attractive to investors. The government is seeking independent power producers to generate and sell electricity to NEPA.

Declining electricity generation from a number of domestic power plants sent the country into an energy crisis during 2000/2001. President Obasanjo introduced a number of measures to ensure that a consistent supply of power was available by the end of 2001.

The country's electrical power demand is high but actual generation is considerably below demand. As a result, Nigeria has experienced an energy supply crisis in recent years. The country is looking towards further development of the country’s hydropower resources to curtail the crisis.

http://www.mbendi.com/indy/powr/af/ng/p0005.htm

http://allafrica.com/stories/201007280623.html

@tony starks..i dont see any stupid statements here. The issue is this:
1.Nigeria produces 2 million barrels of oil per day=fact
2.Nigeria exports crude then imports petrol and diesel=fact.
3. What ails Nigeria for it to allow this to happen=debateable

This guy here thinks its coz of Worldbank/IMF

http://www.boilingfrogsp...e-of-the-imf/#more-11379

hehheheh. imf causes war ? how ?

Imagine if the govt had a tannery and another Kenya Meat Commission in Turkana where when these pastrolist would be selling their animals for meat and or even the skins for leather production, do you think their lives would be the same?

Again, do u believe that the Ministry of Agriculture has deployed enough personnel in Northern Kenya to educate these people on method of subsistence farming? Some of the people in Turkana are fishermen, ever heard of a fish processing plant there?

In a forum everybody is entitled to their opinion. Nobody forces anything down others throats.Every issue is debatable and it's up to the rest of the forumites to chip in. If you do not agree with what is posted,then do not insult them.Chip in or correct them.That's not hard.

Architect asked a very interesting question which only a fool or hypocrite will regard as senseless.
This same question has been asked over and over by nigerians and their responses overwhelming.
Now when you have milions of Nigerians from all sectors of the economy agreeing on the same issues, who am I as a Kenyan to dispute?

@ Young come and shed some light please because I am also interested.

Thank you for the breaking news
But the reason for the bolded is the purpose of this thread so you havent answered.Umetukanana tu which is unwarranted.

@ Young.

Nigeria may soon start importing fuel from the Republic of Niger as the latter plans to evacuate its excess petroleum products.
http://www.leadership.ng...uel_niger_republic.html

NIGER REFINES 20,000bpd and consume only 7,000 barrels leaving an excess of 13,000 barrels.
1. why?
2.Are plans to import electricity from Ghana still on??

African Nations are buying the same resources they produce and that sucks to the core.
Skills we have and so do labour.Facilities can be built.So what ails us?
Our hands are tied somewhere.simple.

@ murchr
Have you ever been to Turkana? Have you been to nigeria which you speak so authoritatively about?
Which processing plant are you talking about? I really hope you are not talking about the FAILED kaalokol project??
You are an IDIOT.