Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, says the inability of Nigeria to refine its crude oil locally due to the poor state of its refineries is part of the reasons the nation is experiencing fuel scarcity at the moment. stediril online brianza biblioteche
“When you import fuel and do not produce fuel locally or the refineries do not work once in a while fuel scarcity should be expected, as long as you have those variables not under your total control you can’t rule that out,” Adesina said while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.
Bu he said that the country will stop importation and exportation of petroleum products by 2019.
Adesina said that importation and exportation of fuel has a high effect on the lingering fuel crisis because the country does not produce the product locally and the refineries do not work, which makes room for little hitches in the inflow.
He explained that Ibe Kachukwu, the Minister of State For Petroleum Resources, has drawn a timetable leading to 2019, noting that part of the plan is that Nigeria will stop importing but exporting.
Speaking on the unemployment rate in the country which the National Bureau of Statistics recently released that showed that unemployment has increased in the 3rd quarter of 2017, Adesina said that there is an increase agricultural sector especially rice farming, mining and solid minerals.
He further explained that shortly after the Buhari-led administration came into power the country entered into recession and oil prices went down but within a year the country came out of recession, he added that as the economy starts to settle gradually jobs that were lost will be regained.