FG bans supply of petrol to filling stations near borders

By : Timileyin Omilana

Date: 7 November 2019 10:40am WAT

NIGERIA - DECEMBER 12: Men walk past a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation tanker outside the NNPC headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, December 12, 2006. OPEC, the producer of 40 percent of the world's oil, convenes this week in Abuja, Nigeria, its first conference in Africa's largest oil-producing nation since 1972. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Nigerian government has banned the supply of petroleum products to filling stations at least 20 kilometres away from all borders.

“The Comptroller-General of Customs of has directed that henceforth no petroleum products no matter the tank size is permitted to be discharged in any filling station within 20 kilometres to the Border,” Augustine Chidi, Deputy Comptroller-General said in a statement.

The statement dated November 6 ordered the customs to maintain strict compliance of the order.