The Federal Government, yesterday, stated that effective January 1,
2016, petrol, would be sold at
N86 per litre by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC
Retail stations.All other oil marketers would sell at N86.50 per
litre.The new stance was made known in Abuja during a news conference by the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum
Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed.
He said the revised template,would be reviewed on
quarterly basis and which would soon be presented to oil marketers.He said
“Since 2007, while crude oil price had been moving up and
down, the template remained the same. This had made it necessary for us
to introduce a mechanism whereby the template would be sensitive to the
price of crude oil.
“However, the template is not static, as there would be a quarterly
review and if there is any major shift, the Minister of State for
Petroleum Resources would be expected to call for a review, either
upward or downward, depending on the market condition.
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