The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has described the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) planned nationwide protest against fuel subsidy removal as unnecessary and misplaced priority. The NLC had fixed January 27 for its protest across the 36 states and a grand protest in Abuja over the planned fuel subsidy removal. He said: “In the 2022 budget, there is nothing like fuel subsidy. “But if the labour union is insisting on protest, that means they want the corruption involved in the payment of fuel subsidy to continue. There is a lot of unnecessary emphasis on fuel while Nigerians are suffering in other sectors,” he added.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2022 05:25 UTC