This is the History of fuel price increases in Nigeria.

This is the History of fuel price increases in Nigeria by Aliyu Ibrahim
 Gowon - from 6k to 8.45k
 Murtala - from 8.45k to 9k
 Obasanjo - from 9k to 15.3k
 Shagari - from 15.3k to 20k
 Buhari - from 20k to 20k (Price remain the same)
 Babangida - from 20k to 70k
 Shonekan - from 70k to N5
 Abacha - from N5 to N3.25k (Price drops)
 Abacha - from N3.25k to N15
 Abacha - from N15 to N11 (Price drops)
 Abubakar - from N11 to N25
 Abubakar - from N25 to N20 (Price drops)
 Obasanjo - from N20 to N30
 Obasanjo - from N30 to N22 (Price drops)
 Obasanjo - from N22 to N26
 Obasanjo - from N26 to N42
 Obasanjo - from N42 to N50
 Obasanjo - from N50 to N65
 Obasanjo - from N65 to N75
 Yar'Adua - from N75 to N65 (Price drops)
 Jonathan - (New year present) N141
 Jonathan - (After nationwide strike) N97
 Buhari appears to be the only leader that never touched the price of fuel (Increase
 or decrease).
 YAR'ADUA is the only leader who did not increase the price, rather he reduced the
 pump price from N75 to N65 (RIP).

Portability of Subscriber Identity Module card.“I don port o” – Etisalat ambassador, Hafeez Ayetoro aka Saka, switches to MTN

Saka (Afeez Oyatoro) just upgraded
Hafeez Ayetoro, ace comedian and Nollywood actor, who has become the face of Etisalat for some years now, has switched network from the GSM company he was known with, to telecom giants MTN.
It will be recalled that Hafeez’s face became a part of Etisalat branding for years, I can authoritatively inform you that the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education lecturer, was given an irresistible amount of money to switch allegiance.

The advert starts with Saka dressed in green traditional attire, only to transform into a bright yellow attire as he leads a music band.
“I don port o, I don port go MTN. I don upgrade to MTN,” Saka sings and dances.

Dangote to build $8bn oil refinery in Nigeria

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, plans to invest up to $8bn to build a Nigerian oil refinery with a capacity of around 400,000 barrels a day by late 2016, the tycoon told Reuters on Tuesday.

This will almost double Nigeria’s current refining capacity.

“This will really help not only Nigeria but sub-Saharan Africa. There has not been a new refinery for a long time in sub-Saharan Africa,” Dangote said in a telephone interview.

The country currently has the capacity to produce some 445,000 barrels per day among four refineries, but they operate well below that owing to decades of mismanagement and corruption in Africa’s leading energy producer.

Nigeria, the continent’s second-biggest economy, relies on subsidised imports for 80 per cent of its fuel needs.

A surge in domestic capacity would be welcomed by investors in Nigeria, but it would cut into profits made by European refiners and oil traders who would lose part of that lucrative market.

Dangote said the country’s ability to import fuel would soon be challenged.

“In five years, when our population is over 200 million, we won’t have the infrastructure to receive the amount of fuel we use. It has to be done,” he said.

Past efforts to build refineries have often been delayed or cancelled, but analysts have said Dangote should be able to build a profitable Nigerian refinery, owing to his past successes in industry and his strong government connections.

The Dangote Group’s cement manufacturing, basic food processing and other industries have helped lift his personal fortune to $16.1bn from $2.1bn in 2010, according to the latest Forbes estimate.

Nigeria has two refineries in its main Port Harcourt oil hub, one in the Niger Delta town of Warri, and one in Kaduna in the North that serve 170 million people. Not one of them functions at full capacity.

Analysts have said previous attempts to get the refineries going have been held back by vested interests such as fuel importers profiting from the status quo. Dangote said this concerned him.

“The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business,” he said. “Some … are going to try to … interfere.”

Nigeria’s government subsidises fuel imports to keep pump prices well below the market rate at a cost of billions of dollars a year. Fuel subsidies are the single biggest item on the country’s budget.

Dangote said making a new refinery run at a profit would work even if the government failed to scrap the subsidised fuel price that has deterred others from investing.

“We’ve done our numbers and the numbers are okay,” he said.