Farouk Ahmed, The Managing Director of Nigeria Mainstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDRA), Farouk Ahmed, revealed this to state correspondents at the Presidential Villa, yesterday
He debunked reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), had given approval to Dangote Group to import petroleum, saying that the company has no powers to give such approval.
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Ahmed further noted that there are several companies that applied for fuel importation permit and anyone can apply for importation to get access to the port as the authority is open to all those interested in importing.
โThere are six companies who said they want to import fuel in July. Of course, all the others may import in December in November, or anytime but those who expressed interest to bring in fuel in July, there were six of them as of this morning.
โThe beauty of it is that there are interests, which means that they have been able to have access to foreign exchange in order to import.
โNow, as we go along, of course, weโll be briefing you on the progress or the achievements so far, but the important thing is that NNPC has 30 days fuel sufficiency, so we do not anticipate any gap in supply or in distribution.โ Six Companies Get Approval To Import Petroleum Products In July.JAMB Result