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Marketers Will Pay Naira for Dangote Fuel -IPMAN

Aliko Dangote Refined petroleum products from the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery are to be sold in naira and not in the United States dollar as speculated in some quarters, oil marketers clarified on Monday. Dealers in the downstream oil sector also stated that the registration process for marketers at the refinery was still ongoing, as many operators had continued to register with the plant. It was further gathered that officials of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority were meeting with the management of the refinery to perfect the pricing template for products produced by the facility. On January 12, 2023, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery announced the commencement of production of Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, and JetA1 or aviation fuel. The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had in a statement issued by the firm, said, “We have started the production of diesel and aviation fuel, and the products will be in the market within this mon...

Lagos Discharges More COVID-19 Patients including foreigner

A file photo of Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Lagos state has discharged 37 more COVID-19 patients from its isolation centres.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this in a tweet by his spokesman, Gboyega Akosile on Wednesday.


The patients were discharged from the Yaba, Onikan and Eti-Osa (LandMark) isolation centres.

Of the 37, 19 are females, while the remaining 18 are males.

One of the discharged patients is an Indian national.

This brings the number of COVID-19 patients discharged from Lagos treatment facilities to 358.

“What this indicates is that while our numbers of confirmed cases are rising, we are also maintaining a significant discharge rate of our active cases, which shows that our medical interventions and management of the cases are working,” Sanwo-Olu said.

According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Lagos has recorded 1,226 COVID-19 cases, as of Tuesday.

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