Dangote refinery: Set to ease Nigeria’s energy burden?

Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote had unveiled early plans for the refinery in September 2013, when he announced that he had secured about $3.3 billion in financing for the project.

However, after a change in location to Lekki, construction of the refinery did not begin until 2016 with excavation and infrastructure preparation, and the planned completion was pushed back to late 2018.