{"id":47527,"date":"2024-09-07T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47527"},"modified":"2024-09-07T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:47:32","slug":"nigerians-may-pay-n5000-per-litre-of-petrol-under-tinubu-nlc-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/07\/nigerians-may-pay-n5000-per-litre-of-petrol-under-tinubu-nlc-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians May Pay N5,000 Per Litre of Petrol Under Tinubu \u2013 NLC Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) spokesman, Benson Upah, has warned that Nigerians could face petrol prices as high as \u20a65,000 per litre under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Weekend Trust, Upah criticized the recent fuel price hikes and stated that the increase goes against the agreements previously reached between the NLC and the government. He further argued that the government never truly reinstated fuel subsidies, questioning the basis for increasing the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from \u20a6650 to potentially \u20a61,500 or \u20a62,000 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upah cautioned that the current situation may worsen, leaving Nigerians to bear the burden of exorbitant fuel costs, despite hopes that the country does not reach such extreme levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) spokesman, Benson Upah, has warned that Nigerians could face petrol prices as high as \u20a65,000 per litre under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration. &nbsp; In an interview with Weekend Trust, Upah criticized the recent fuel price hikes and stated that the increase goes against the agreements previously reached between the NLC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47529,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47527\/revisions\/47529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}