Nigeria: Petrol Importation - Oil Marketers Lobby Govt for Tax Incentives to Offset Costs

4 January 2018

Abuja — Oil marketers in Nigeria may have opted to lobby the federal government to consider and grant them some form of tax holidays and other incentives that would enable them resume importation of petrol into the country, THISDAY learnt last night in Abuja.

THISDAY gathered from sources that were at the meeting held between the marketers and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in his office, that the marketers who were reportedly pushing for a pump price increase in the face of their inabilities to bring in petrol into the country at cost effective rates, allegedly made this proposal to the government.

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