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FG insist fuel subsidy still intact, accuses marketers of Price Hike

The Federal Government says there’s no going back on fuel subsidy on petrol, while the hike in a price increase of the commodity on petroleum marketers.

According to the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, the government still pays subsidies on petrol.

His comments came a month after petrol marketers including government-owned NNPC Limited raised the petrol pump price from government-regulated N165 per litre to between N174-N215 per litre.