NIGERIA’S fuel refinery at Kaduna in the north has resumed operations, pumping some 1,5- million litres of fuel a day to a depot in the region, the plant’s manager said on Friday. The restoration of the refinery, under a $214-million contract awarded to French oil giant Total, is a key step in ending the chronic fuel crisis in Nigeria caused five years ago when three of its four refineries slowed or stopped working. Morrison Tanumo, MD of the Kaduna Refinery and Petrolchemical Company, said operations resumed on Wednesday.