FG has no plans to increase fuel price - Kachikwu assures, laments over long queues at filling stations
- Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, says the federal govt has no plans to increase fuel price - The minister urged the public to ignore rumours of a planned upward review of the pump price of petrol - Kachikwu further expressed confidence in the NNPC management and its capacity to maintain and meet Nigeria’s supply needs The minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has stated that the federal government has no plans to increase the pump price of petrol. During a chat with journalists while attending the second edition of the Annual International Conference and Exhibition of the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) on Monday, April 15, the minister added that the queues at filling stations were as a result of logistics issues, not shortage, The Nation reports. READ ALSO: Insecurity: Nigeria is safer today than it was in 2015 - Lai Mohammed Legit.ng gathers that Kachikwu urged the public to ignore rumou