Nigeria’s state-owned energy firm began shipping gasoline from the Dangote Refinery, a step that could end decades of dependence on imports of the fuel for Africa’s largest crude producer.
Trucks started loading gasoline at the refinery, located in the outskirts of Lagos, the nation’s commercial hub, according to Femi Soneye, a spokesman for NNPC. Dangote Group posted videos Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, of trucks being loaded. This follows an agreement allowing NNPC to swap crude for an equivalent amount of gasoline from billionaire Aliko Dangote’s site.
