Govt plans to set up new refinery to fix fuel crisis

The government has planned to set up a new refinery after Eastern Refinery Ltd's (ERL) lone outmoded unit proved incapable of refining crude oils to be imported for fixing the current oil crisis, officials said. Sources said the government is going to approve refinery-construction project for ERL while installing an oil-unloading

2 suspects sought as 100 die in Nigeria oil refinery blast

At least 100 people may have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeast Nigeria, a local oil official said Sunday as the search intensified for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the blast.  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement,