Sorry Nigerians, But The Fuel Price Increase Has Come To Stay – Government
The Nigerian government today made it abundantly clear it will not restate the subsidy on petroleum products, according to The Punch newspaper.
Following this afternoon’s emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council, in Abuja, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, told newsmen the government was not oblivious of the pains inflicted by Nigerians as a result of the new policy.
In order to ameliorate those pains, he said the government had commenced a ‘massive mass transit scheme’ aimed at cushioning the effects of the subsidy removal on transportation. Thousands of mass transit vehicles, he claimed, would be distributed.
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