Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday in an address delivered virtually at a National Summit on the Integration of Artisanal and Modular Refinery Operations in Nigeria.
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Senator Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, has said the Federal Government was planning to legalise Modular Refineries in the country.
The decision followed a motion on Tuesday entitled “Existing Petroleum Subsidy: Ensuring Self -Sufficiency in Domestic Refining of Petroleum Products’’, by Senator Rose Oko.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the indigenous modular refinery under construction will start with the production of diesel and kerosene at operating capacity of 7,000 barrel per day when it commences operation probably later in the year according to the investor.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council in Abuja on Wednesday
According to Osinbajo’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the 10 modular refineries were located in five out of the nine states in the Niger Delta region
Osinbajo said this during the inter-ministerial meeting on the Niger Delta in the Presidential Villa, Abuja