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Nigeria Govt Scraps Subsidy on Petrol, Kerosene

The government has officially stopped paying the subsidy to oil marketers for the importation of premium motor spirit, otherwise called petrol and household kerosene, as well as dropped the official price of fuel.

Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters Media Express

A petrol pump attendant sits on a floating fuel station on the banks of the Nun River near Yenagoa, October 8.

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