{"id":917985,"date":"2022-01-20T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/petrol-price-increase-will-push-more-nigerians-into-poverty-abdulsalami\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:04:59","slug":"petrol-price-increase-will-push-more-nigerians-into-poverty-abdulsalami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/petrol-price-increase-will-push-more-nigerians-into-poverty-abdulsalami\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol Price Increase Will Push More Nigerians Into Poverty \u2013 Abdulsalami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_828252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-828252\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-828252 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Abdulsalami-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"BREAKING: Petrol Price Increase Will Push More Nigerians Into Poverty \u2013 Abdulsalami\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-828252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdulsalami Abubakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) has warned against increasing petrol prices at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians are about to pay more for gasoline, thanks to the National Economic Council\u2019s (NEC) proposal that the pump price is set at N302 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Head of State warned against such a step during the 19th Daily Trust Dialogue in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Lawan: Buhari Did Not Direct Removal Of Petrol Subsidy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_86e td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEC, chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, made the recommendation in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This is reportedly part of government\u2019s plan to fully deregulate the prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), and eliminate monthly subsidy payments with provisions to ensure fair competition in the market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdulsalami Abubakar Former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) has warned against increasing petrol prices at the pump. Nigerians are about to pay more for gasoline, thanks to the National Economic Council\u2019s (NEC) proposal that the pump price is set at N302 per litre. However, the former Head of State warned against such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}