Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity - Payment of Subsidy to Marketers Begins Today - Okonjo-Iweala

The federal government has given the assurance that it would commence payment of the outstanding N185 billion owed to fuel marketers. It also stressed that there was no reason for fuel queues to surface in the first place.

Minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who gave this assurance yesterday in Abuja, also gave the assurance that fuel would be available within 48 hours, as supplies were being expected.

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