Illegal Refinery News Today

He advised those involved in the illegal ventures that “their time is over, and it will be in their interest to seek better ways of engaging themselves economically.

Because these “illegal refiners” spring back into business almost immediately after an attack, I think it is time that the Nigerian state took another look at them, and fashion a policy that will constructively engage them. I am peeved that no legislator from the Niger Delta, be it in the Senate, House of Representatives and the state Houses of Assembly of states of the Niger Delta have thought it worth their while to prod the Federal Government in this direction.

The Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering Team (STFPIB) of the Nigeria Police has uncovered and destroyed an illegal refining facility in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

Nigerian Navy may have recorded a major breakthrough in oil theft, as troops of Operation Dakatar Da Barawo have recovered over 3,500 litres of stolen crude, among others.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has expressed shock and dismay over the allegations levelled against the anti-vandal unit of Rivers State Command of the Corps by Governor Nyesom Wike. Wike had accused the NSCDC unit and police of aiding and abetting vandals and illegal bunkers […]

Twenty-one suspects, aged between 20 and 53, have been arrested in Gauteng for running an illegal gold processing refinery.