Petrol To sell For N340 Per Litre Next Year – Kyari

The Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has stated that petrol will sell for between N320 and N340 per liter from February, next year.

According to Kyayi, Nigeria would be out of the subsidy regime in the first quarter of 2022 saying that subsidy would have been eliminated this year, but for certain factors that prevented it.

However, the Federal Government is planning to give N5,000 each to 40 million Nigerians, representing 40 per cent of the country’s 200 million population, next year to coincide with the take off of the subsidy removal.

The NNPCL boss disclosed this in Abuja at the presentation of the November edition of the World Bank Nigeria Development Update, titled: “Time for Business Unusual”.

However, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) cautioned the Federal Government against unilateral removal or stoppage of petrol subsidy regime.

The organised labour advised against removing subsidy without meeting labour’s demands.

Kyari said: “There will be no provision for it legally in our system, but I am also sure you will appreciate that government has a bigger social responsibility to cater for the ordinary and therefore engage in a process that will ensure that we exit in the most subtle and easy manner.”

Kyari assured that fuel subsidy removal would definitely be achieved in 2022 as it was now fully backed by law, adding that the price of the product may range between N320 and N340 per liter.