FG Not Contemplating Subsidy Removal, Says Slyva
October 17, 2019
3:51 pm
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Slyva, has said that the federal government is not in any way contemplating the removal of subsidy, even as he revealed that oil has been discovered in commercial quantity in Bauchi State.
Slyva disclosed this Thursday while briefing the Joint National Assembly Committees on Petroleum Resources (upstream) on the 2019 budget performance and the proposed 2020 budget.
He said that while the subsidy might not be very clearly captured in the 2020 budget, provision was made for fuel subsidy.
Sylva stated: “I want to say this government is not about to remove …
