{"id":78649,"date":"2025-11-13T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78649"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:44:08","slug":"fg-suspends-15-import-duty-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/fg-suspends-15-import-duty-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Suspends 15% Import Duty on Petrol, Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat and Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has suspended the planned 15% import duty on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on X on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), George Ene-Ita, confirmed that the policy was \u201cno longer in view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The duty, earlier approved by President Bola Tinubu, had drawn public concern over potential fuel price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>NMDPRA also assured Nigerians of adequate fuel supply nationwide, saying it remains committed to ensuring energy security and uninterrupted distribution during the current peak demand period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat and Merciful Omoba The Federal Government has suspended the planned 15% import duty on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and diesel. In a statement posted on X on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), George Ene-Ita, confirmed that the policy was \u201cno longer in view.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78649","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78653,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78649\/revisions\/78653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}