Mele Kyari, the group managing director of NNPC had noted that over N10 trillion had been spent on fuel subsidy between 2006 and 2020 without a significant impact on the masses.
In March 2020, the Nigerian government announced the removal of subsidies on petroleum products after seemingly realising the practice was a drain on the nation's coffers.
Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), later in that year
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