{"id":213536,"date":"2025-11-14T01:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cso-kicks-against-deferment-of-15-percent-import-duty-on-fuel-diesel\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:36:29","slug":"nigeria-cso-kicks-against-deferment-of-15-percent-import-duty-on-fuel-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cso-kicks-against-deferment-of-15-percent-import-duty-on-fuel-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: CSO Kicks Against Deferment of 15 Percent Import Duty On Fuel, Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8211;Urges Tinubu to Protect Local Industries<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">ABUJA &#8212; The Nigerian Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (NCCSO) has faulted the Federal Government&#8217;s decision to defer the commencement of the 15 percent import duty on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and diesel until the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement issued by its spokesman, Comrade Mustapha Ahmed, the coalition described the move as a setback for Nigeria&#8217;s drive toward energy self-sufficiency and urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to safeguard&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511130622.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Urges Tinubu to Protect Local Industries ABUJA &#8212; The Nigerian Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (NCCSO) has faulted the Federal Government&#8217;s decision to defer the commencement of the 15 percent import duty on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and diesel until the first quarter of 2026. In a statement issued by its spokesman, Comrade Mustapha Ahmed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9721,52870,8443,9134,7570,10453,7023,257,4687,393,6720,254],"class_list":["post-213536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cso","tag-deferment","tag-diesel","tag-duty","tag-fuel","tag-import","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}