{"id":17359,"date":"2026-08-03T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17359"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:09:20","slug":"mahama-directs-npa-to-absorb-gh%c2%a22-per-litre-of-diesel-to-ease-fuel-price-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17359","title":{"rendered":"Mahama directs NPA to absorb GH\u00a22 per litre of diesel to ease fuel price burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has directed the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to take steps to absorb GH\u00a22 on every litre of diesel as part of measures to cushion consumers against recent fuel price increases.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure was made by the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Commission, Edudzi Tamakloe, in a Facebook post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Tamakloe, the intervention is intended to reduce the burden of rising fuel costs on Ghanaians, particularly commercial transport operators and businesses that depend heavily on diesel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident John Dramani Mahama has directed that the NPA takes steps to absorb GH\u00a22 on every liter of diesel to cushion the impact of recent fuel price increases,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He described the directive as \u201ca further demonstration of the President\u2019s care for the ordinary citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has directed the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to take steps to absorb GH\u00a22 on every litre of diesel as part of measures to cushion consumers against recent fuel price increases. The disclosure was made by the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Commission, Edudzi Tamakloe, in a Facebook post on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":17360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,3537,41],"tags":[5449,5448,1256,1132],"class_list":["post-17359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-general-news","tag-diesel-price-reduction","tag-edudzi-tamakloe","tag-mahama","tag-npa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17361,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions\/17361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}