Nigeria: U.S.$1 Billion Withdrawal From NLNG Dividend Account Legal, NNPC Insists

10 December 2018

Lagos and Abuja — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has maintained that its withdrawal of $1.05 billion from the NLNG Dividend Account was legal.The Senate is currently probing the action, which it claimed was done to support fuel consumption.

Though analysts have said the withdrawal to augment, what they alleged obscure subsidy regime, remained a critical challenge to the nation's economy, NNPC's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Isiaka Abdulrazaq, however told reporters that extant laws were resorted to before the consummation of the deal.

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