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| West African nations had promised higher quality by July 2017 as part of a UNEP campaign when Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire agreed to ban importation of Europe’s dirty fuel, limiting sulphur from 3,000 parts per millions to 50ppm, but only Ghana met the deadline. |
Nigeria will begin
cutting the sulphur levels allowed in imported fuels in July, a change long
sought by health and environmental campaigners, a year after an initial
deadline, an official at state oil company NNPC said.
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man sits behind containers containing petroleum near the Area 10 shopping
centre in Abuja, Nigeria May 25, 2015. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde
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