Naija News understands that the said figures were accumulated after a total of 16, 000 litres of diesel valued at N800/litre (N12.8m) were on Monday recovered by members of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Cross River.
The Rivers State NSCDC Commandant, Samuel Fadeyi had told newsmen earlier that the stolen products, which were mainly Automotive Gas Oil also known as diesel, were recovered within the last two weeks.
The development was recorded days after the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Seme Area Command reported that it intercepted 3,998 jerry cans of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, in 30 litres each, equivalent to 119,940 litres.
The products, according to the Customs Area Controller, Bello Mohammed Jibo, were about four tanker loads of 33,000 litres each.
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, recently approved a price of N191 per litre of PMS (the highest range). An estimation of how much Nigeria would have lost had the 119, 940 litres made it to the Republic of Benin would have been