{"id":255590,"date":"2025-11-02T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:13:09","slug":"nigerias-dangote-says-fuel-output-now-exceeds-local-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255590\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Dangote Says Fuel Output Now Exceeds Local Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s giant Dangote refinery says it now produces more gasoline and diesel than can be consumed locally, as it backed a proposal by the West African nation to impose a 15% import duty on refined products. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The refinery is now \u201cloading 45 million liters of PMS and 25 million liters of diesel daily, which exceeds Nigeria\u2019s demand,\u201d Anthony Chiejina, a spokesman for the Dangote Group, said in a statement on Saturday. \u201cThis significant production capacity not only guarantees local supply, but also enhances energy security and reduces dependence on imports.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s giant Dangote refinery says it now produces more gasoline and diesel than can be consumed locally, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5684,45,49,48,46,9890,16767,91731,893,87448,18271,118791,100,5687],"class_list":["post-255590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-energy-industry","tag-energy-security","tag-generic-1st-xb-future","tag-government","tag-great-britain","tag-imports","tag-inland-revenue","tag-markets","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}