Is The Complete Shutdown of Illegal Local Refineries: A Full-Proof Plan?
The situation in Nigeria today is one that requires thinking outside the box for solutions. The approach to prevailing over the obvious challenges has to be diiferent enough to be effective. The dominant issues in Nigeria at present includes, but not limited to Crude Oil refining and related issues, Corruption and loot recovery, Power generation and consumption among others. There is a way to approach these issues. When conventional methods are slow to yield immediate results, the unconventional methods can be considered so long as the primary object is reached. On Crude Oil refining, but for the fact that Nigerian Refineries are not fully operational there is scarcity of petroleum products, a scenerio that has greatly affected the entire Nigerian state hence the strong dependence on Independent Oil Marketers who in turn have to import before the same is distributed country-wide and at high rates. The situation could have been remedied if the illegal local refineries that were