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Marketers reject fuel pricing curbs, threaten shutdown

Fuel marketers have declared that their filling stations will stop selling petrol should the Federal Government try to enforce price control.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Ukadike, issued the warning on Tuesday during an interview with our correspondent.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, warned on Monday that the government would not tolerate profiteering and other practices that exploit fuel consumers. Lokpobiri said that, though the era of government-fixed petrol prices was over, deregulation did not mean regulators should abdicate their responsibility to protect consumers.

The minister spoke in Abuja at the opening ceremony of the 2026 General Counsel and Legal Advisers Forum organised by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority.

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