- By Halimah Olamide
The fire incident is coming three days after the Vice President Oil and Gas sector of the Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin accused the International Oil Companies of sabotaging the efforts of the refinery to succeed.
There is panic over a fire outbreak at the Dangote Refinery in Lagos.
Videos being shared online showed black thick smokes oozing out from a section of the expansive refinery which went into operation earlier this year.
People could be seen running up and down and screaming as the fire raged on.
The refinery was officially commissioned last year.
The cause of the fire was not known at the time of filing this report.
A video shared online by Imrahm Mohammed with the X handle @Imranmuhdz is shown below:
The fire incident is coming three days after the Vice President Oil and Gas sector of the Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin accused the International Oil Companies of sabotaging the efforts of the refinery to succeed.
The Federal Government had, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority had said that Dangote’s claims of importing dirty fuel was false.
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, also stated that refined petroleum products with high-sulphur contents were last imported in February, stressing that this had since been addressed by the regulator.
The Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure, NMDPRA, Ogbugo Ukoha, said this while speaking to journalists after the regulator concluded its meeting with the oil marketers and local crude oil refiners, which also had present officials from Dangote refinery and modular refineries.
“There is no dirty fuel that is being brought into Nigeria,” Ukoha declared when asked to react to the allegations levelled against the NMDPRA by a senior official of the Dangote refinery.
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In another video seen of the incident, one of the officials could be heard giving instructions to others on what to do while making attempts to curtail the fire.
Details later…
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