Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Public Accounts has summoned the heads of NNPC Ltd, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to explain conflicting petrol-import records, the National Assembly Library Trust Fund reported on 22 October.

The library’s account says figures presented to the committee put 2022 imports at 3.29 billion litres in the regulator’s records and 6.27 billion litres in NNPC’s records. For 2023, the corresponding figures were 6.02 billion and 3.88 billion litres. These are competing submissions described in the official parliamentary report, not reconciled national import totals.

The hearing concerned queries arising from the NEITI Oil and Gas Industry Audit Report covering 2021–2023. The report says a regulator representative described the discrepancies as undergoing internal reconciliation, while committee members demanded a fuller explanation and rejected the presentation as sufficient.

Differences between submissions do not by themselves prove fraud, inflated imports or a quantified loss to public funds. The next joint appearance had no announced date in the source. It describes the hearing only as recent, so this article does not assign an unsupported exact hearing day or present the disputed records as final statistics.