{"id":162636,"date":"2025-05-15T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/north-needs-more-refineries-bashir-ahmad"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:04:54","slug":"north-needs-more-refineries-bashir-ahmad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-needs-more-refineries-bashir-ahmad","title":{"rendered":"North needs more refineries \u2013 Bashir Ahmad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bashir Ahmad, ex-aide to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has suggested that the northern region might soon need additional petroleum refineries.<\/p>\n<p>This is even as he said that the progress at the Kolmani oil fields now at advanced stages<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad was reacting to a post on X by Kalu Aja, a financial expert and educator.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu had claimed that Kaduna Refinery was built to refine imported crude oil, arguing it is not economically sound.<\/p>\n<p>He further insisted that if oil is imported, the refinery should be at the coast, eliminating the oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crude oil pipeline to Kaduna from the gas rich Niger Delta was built in 1980. Why wasn\u2019t a gas pipeline built then? Lack of foresight?,\u201d Kalu said.<\/p>\n<p>However, an X user, Bello Salleh claimed that Kalu\u2019s assertion on Kaduna Refinery as \u2018designed to use imported crude\u2019 is a mischievous and misleading half-truth.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Salleh\u2019s reply to Aja, Ahmad said the financial expert consistently prefers to make unguarded and ill-informed assertions on Nigerian affairs just for the sake of engagement.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThank you, Doc, for properly addressing @FinPlanKaluAja1, who consistently prefers to make such unguarded and ill-informed assertions on Nigerian affairs just for the sake of engagement. He forgets that facts should always guide our conversations of national importance. Anyway, the reality is, with the progress at the Kolmani oil fields now at advanced stages, the North might soon be in need of additional refineries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Bashir Ahmad, ex-aide to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has suggested that the northern region might soon need additional petroleum refineries. 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