Reps broker truce between airline operators and NNPC

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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

The House of Representatives has brokered a truce between airline operators and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the high cost of aviation fuel.

At the end of a meeting between the House and stakeholders in the aviation industry, it was resolved
that the airlines would be supplied with 6million litres of aviation fuel at a cost of N480 in the interim; while the airline operators would be issued a license to import aviation fuel in the long term

Consequently, airline operators agreed to put off plans to shut down their operations.

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