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Subsidy hits 45% of fuel import bill in Q1 – NBS report

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June 7, 2022
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Subsidy hits 45% of fuel import bill in Q1 – NBS report
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The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that Nigeria spent N1.51tn on the imports of premium motor spirit, also known as petrol, in the first quarter of 2022.

This was 25.54 per cent of the total imports for this quarter, and an increase of 17.05 per cent when compared to the N1.29tn spent on importing fuel in Q1 2021.

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The PMS import, as usual, tops the list of imported products for this quarter.

This was disclosed in the Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics report of the NBS.

Figures from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited showed that the oil firm spent N210.38bn, N219.78bn, and N245.77bn as subsidy on petrol in January, February, and March 2022 respectively.

This means that a total of N675.93bn was spent on fuel subsidy in Q1 2022.

The amount spent on fuel subsidy is 44.86 per cent of the amount spent on fuel import.

The  earlier reported that the amount spent on fuel subsidy monthly rose from N60.39bn in March 2021 to N245.77bn in March 2022, indicating an increase of 306.97 per cent.

Despite the increasing cost of the fuel subsidy, Nigerians still suffered a hike in the cost of transportation.

Economic and energy experts have continued to decry the rising cost of fuel subsidy to the Federal Government.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have decried the Federal Government’s huge spending on petrol subsidy, urging the government to end the regime.

The World Bank, in its Africa’s Pulse report, said increasing fuel subsidy puts the Nigerian economy at a high risk as subsidy payments could significantly impact public finance and pose debt sustainability concerns.

Although the Federal Government had planned to stop paying fuel subsidy by June 2022, the government eventually backtracked on the plan.

However, in January this year, the Federal Government decided to retain the controversial fuel subsidy for another 18 months following threats of protests by the Nigerian Labour Congress and other interest groups.

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