Port Harcourt Refinery Protest: 7 Months Unpaid
Port Harcourt refinery workers blocked the gate over seven months of unpaid salaries and threatened a 48-hour shutdown. See what...
October 7, 2026Topic
fuel imports
Mexico Panel Backs Fines Up to 100% for Fuel Smuggling
Mexico's lower-house finance committee backed fines of 50% to 100% of cargo value for false fuel import papers on 1...
October 5, 2026
Nigeria Court Orders Regulator to Keep Licensing Fuel Importers
A Nigerian court says the fuel regulator broke the law by stalling import licences, as Dangote's giant refinery pushes to...
September 29, 2026
Morocco’s SAMIR Refinery: How the Kingdom Lost Its Only Oil Refinery
Morocco's only oil refinery, SAMIR, has been idle since 2015, leaving the kingdom to import all its fuel. What went...
September 21, 2026
Museveni Ditches Ruto, Says Kenya Oil Import Scheme Swindled Uganda
Museveni says Kenyan middlemen inflated Uganda’s fuel bill, so imports now run through UNOC, cutting Kenyan firms out of US$180...
September 20, 2026
Brent Crude Slides Back to 104.6 Dollars After Breaking 105
Brent crude settled near US$104.6 a barrel on 11 September 2026, down almost 3 percent on the day but sharply...
September 11, 2026
Zambia’s State Firm Puts Ndola Refinery at US$1.2 Billion
Zambia's state holding company says the Ndola refinery will cost US$1.2 billion, above the licensed US$1.1 billion. The difference is...
September 6, 2026
Malawi Will Not Devalue, and the IMF Will Not Sign
The Malawi forex crisis has left fuel and medicine imports rationed, and a new IMF programme is stuck on the...
September 4, 2026
A Lagos Court Tells Nigeria’s Fuel Regulator to Leave Dangote Alone
A Dangote refinery injunction bars the NMDPRA from enforcing its 24 August order suspending loading at the Lekki plant, pending...
September 2, 2026