Nigeria's Dangote refinery begins petrol deliveries

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00:00After several decades, Nigeria has once again returned to refining its petrol locally.

00:06Although Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter, it has been importing its petrol

00:12because the four government-owned refineries are not functioning.

00:16Now the privately owned Ndangute refinery, the largest single-train refinery in the world,

00:22has come to supply the Nigerian market with petrol. Nigeria's reliance on imported petrol

00:28has caused frequent scarcity of the product, leading to long queues of motorists at pump

00:34stations. Even when available, the imported petrol can be very expensive, selling beyond what many

00:42Nigerians can afford. The price of petrol has of recent gone so high that government workers in

00:48some states have been asked to walk from home. This is to reduce the hardship they face with

00:54transportation. In Edo state, the resumption of schools has been postponed indefinitely

01:01due to the high price of petrol. Nigerians hope that supply from the Ndangute refinery

01:07will solve the protracted problem of petrol scarcity. They also hope that the price of

01:13the product will come down. But in a country where vested interest frustrated the government-owned

01:20refineries from operating so that the lucrative business of imported petrol can thrive,

01:26some Nigerians say the Ndangute refinery must be mindful of these interest groups

01:32if it must succeed, where four government-owned refineries failed.

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