The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, announced on Thursday that the NPA has begun implementing the federal government’s directive to coordinate regulatory, security, and other stakeholders in selling crude oil and petroleum products to the Dangote Refinery in naira.
During an inter-agency stakeholders meeting at the NPA headquarters in Lagos, Dantsoho emphasized the authority’s readiness to support the smooth distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) across the country. He noted that the NPA is focused on ensuring efficiency and collaboration among relevant agencies to fulfill this critical national goal.
“We are poised to collaborate and provide the efficiencies necessary to deliver on this national imperative of ensuring the availability of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and other petroleum products. We are also setting up a one-stop shop that will coordinate service provision from all regulatory and security agencies, as well as other stakeholders, to ensure a smooth implementation of this initiative,” Dantsoho said.
The federal government has mandated that the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) for this initiative be located within the NPA.
According to LEADERSHIP, the OSS team includes representatives from the NPA, Nigerian Navy, NNPC Limited, Dangote Group, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA), and NDLEA. Ms. Maureen Ogbonna, a top official from the NPA Marine & Operations Directorate, has been appointed as the focal person for the initiative.
