Nigeria reaches deal to end fuel crisis


Issue 301 - 29 May 2015 | 3 minute read

Oil marketers have ended a strike that had virtually paralysed Nigeria in the final days of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, agreeing to resume fuel deliveries following talks on 25 May with finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The crisis started with a protest by oil marketers demanding what they said were outstanding subsidy payments, and worsened with a strike by staff at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), while tanker drivers stopped work because the marketers were not paying them until they received their subsidy payments.

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