Federal Government has granted permission to petroleum marketers to lift petrol directly from the Dangote refinery without going through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.

This confirms the speculation that the NNPC will no longer be the sole off-taker of the Dangote fuel.

In a statement the Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Naira-crude sale implementation committee, Dr Wale Edun, gave an update on the takeoff of crude purchase and product sales in naira transactions.

The Implementation Committee chaired by Dr Edun was said to have held its second post-commencement review meeting on October tenth, to evaluate the progress of the Crude Oil and Refined Products Sales in naira initiative.