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The management of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students has urged the Federal Authorities to repair the nation’s refineries to allow the nation to finish gas importation.
That is as NANS decried the continued gas importation below President Bola Tinubu, saying that this may proceed to harm the economic system and worsen the foreign exchange disaster at present hitting the nation exhausting.
The coed’s management stated that President Tinubu ought to, as a matter of urgency, order Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company Restricted to take concrete steps in repairing the nation’s defective refineries, insisting that solely this could make Nigeria attain self-sufficiency in oil manufacturing.
NANS Senate President Elvis Ekundina, who disclosed this in a press release, stated that Nigeria won’t obtain fast financial development if it continues to import petroleum merchandise from overseas international locations.
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The affiliation maintained that the Federal authorities should tackle the present power disaster attributable to an acute scarcity of petrol within the Nigerian market by not solely repairing the nation’s refineries but additionally guaranteeing that they work at optimum capability.
In keeping with NANS, the nation’s refineries, when successfully and effectively working, can produce sufficient petroleum merchandise to fulfill the nation’s each day consumption.
“It’s our perception that refurbishing and recommissioning our defective refineries to optimum manufacturing degree will resolve the nation’s power disaster.
“This will even resolve the challenges the nation is having with overseas change and the worsening naira disaster.
“Once we are in a position to restore our refineries and put them again to good use, Nigeria’s downside with gas insufficiency and pricing might be resolved.
“It’s good to have our refineries totally working alongside the Dangote refinery as this may finally make Nigeria a web exporter of refined petroleum merchandise and this will even permit for stability in gas costs,” he stated.
