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BREAKING: NNPC Still Owned By Federal Govt, Minister Clears Air
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NNPC not privatised, Federal Govt clears on new status
- ….NNPC is still owned 100 percent by the federal government.”
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that was formally transited to a private limited company by President Muhammadu Buhari this week, has not been privatised.
Group Managing Director of NNPC Limited, Mele Kyari, had announced that NNPC would become a fully private company after the unveiling of the new NNPC.
The minister said, “NNPC is still owned 100 per cent by the federal government.”
She made the clarification on Thursday at a public consultation forum on the 2023-2025 Medium-Term Fiscal Framework (MTEF) in Abuja.
Asked how the federal government would get the new NNPC limited to make its due remittances to the federation account, Mrs Ahmed said the federal government was in talk with the oil company on the modalities for a convenient model for the company to appropriately remit government revenues.
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We are still talking with NNPC,” she said.
The finance minister, who said subsidy payment would be about N6.5 trillion in 2022, added that NNPC has not remitted revenue into the federation account for eight months because it has been paying subsidy on behalf of the federal government.
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