President Bola Tinubu has mandated the Vice President, Kashim Shettima to convene a high-level meeting aimed at addressing the challenges in the oil and gas industry, especially the prevailing issues of pricing and scarcity.
To this end, Shettima met with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Oil, Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL , Mele Kyari, and the Executive Director, under the Nigerian Mainstream, Downstream and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Ugbogu Ukoha at the Presidential Villa on Thursday.
'This intervention is expected to address the uneven distribution of fuel, with some areas facing shortages while others experience higher prices,' he told State House reporters on Thursday . He assured Nigerians that measures are being put in place to increase the availability of petroleum products nationwide by the end of the week.
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