Oil
Petrol imports: Senate rejects NMDPRA figures, summons NNPCL, NEITI
CEII brief
Punch reported on 21 Oct 2026: Petrol imports: Senate rejects NMDPRA figures, summons NNPCL, NEITI.
Read the full story on PunchThe Senate has rejected petrol import figures from the NMDPRA for 2022 and 2023 due to wide discrepancies with records from the NNPCL, summoning both.
Context from CEII
Crude benchmarks move budgets, currencies and inflation in producer and importer countries alike. For economies such as Nigeria, where fuels dominate exports, production and refining decisions move the whole economy.
85.9% of Nigeria’s merchandise exports were fuels in 2025Countries in this story
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