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How Nigeria losses N24 billion to Imported fuel monthly

Fikayo Owoeye by Fikayo Owoeye
February 14, 2018
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The Minister of Power, Housing, and Works Mr. Babatunde Fashola has revealed that Nigerians consume 300 million litres of Diesel monthly, more worrisome is the fact that 77 percent of this is being imported into the country, while 40 percent of this is used to power generators by households and businesses as alternative energy.

It is saddening that despite several years of boom in the price of crude oil, the country has refused to improve on its refining capacity. The current refineries are no longer working at optimum capacity. The economic implication of importing 77% of diesel into the country is that it puts pressure on already scarce foreign exchange.

Recently at the launch of Petrolex’s 300 million capacity tank farm, the Minister of Petroleum Dr. Ibe Kachiukwu assured that with the help of private investors government will realize its target of putting an end to the importation of refined products by 2019.

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Also with the coming on board of Dangote’s $12billion refinery project, there are hopes that the rate of importation will reduce. This will also add an additional 12,000MW of power generation to the national grid also upon completion and the refinery is expected to produce 65,000 barrels per day (bpd).

According to National Bureau of Statistics NBS, Foreign Trade Statistics for Third Quarter 2017, Nigeria spent N2.068 trillion on the importation of petroleum products within a nine-month period, from January to September 2017, rising by 14.32 percent from N1.809 trillion recorded in the same period in 2016. Out of the total petroleum products imported, N1.541 trillion was spent on the importation of premium motor spirit, also known as petrol.

Fashola also noted that the power sector is losing N24bn every month largely to imported energy. The amount used in importing fuel as an alternative source for generating power could be deployed for use in the electricity supply industry and improve on the current transmission capacity which currently stands at a meagre 2,000MW.

The present administration has vowed to stop the importation of refined petroleum products by 2019, this is expected to reduce the humongous amount spent on importation. This can only be achieved if private investors who have been given license to construct a refinery in the country work round the clock to achieve this task. The country will benefit if 70% of our crude oil is refined locally.


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Fikayo has a degree in computer science with economics from Obafemi Awolowo University. ITIL v3 in IT service management. An alumnus of Daystar Leadership Academy. Prior to joining Nairametrics had stinct in Project management, Telecommunications among others. Also training in Consulting and Investment banking from Edubridge Academy. He has very keen interest in Politics, Agri-business, private equity and global economics. He loves travelling and watching football. You can contact him via fikayo.owoeye@nairametrics.com

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