Group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, has again declared that official pump price for petrol is N145 per liter and therefore urged marketers to stick to that price to make life easy for Nigerian. The GMD gave this charge yesterday in Abuja while presenting a commendation letter to the managing director of BOVAS & Company Ltd, an Ibadan-based petroleum marketing company, for consistently selling petrol at the approved price of N145 per litre.
He said NNPC was fully convinced that it was possible for oil marketers to sell petrol at the approved price and still make a decent profit, urging other marketers to emulate BOVAS. He said the Corporation decided to recognize BOVAS and its Managing Director, Mrs. Victoria A. Samson, for helping the government to make life easy for Nigerians by selling petrol at the regulated price. "It is on record that you have consistently demonstrated not only your ability to supply products to the market, but also to do so within the government controlled price of N145 per litre. You are even matching the NNPC Retail price by selling at N143 per litre.
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