petroleum-imports-data-2015-april-2016 The federal government has spent the sum of N2,315,788,177,176.86 to import petrol (Premium motor spirit –PMS) within a period of 16 months spanning January 2015 to April 2016, data just released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown.  This is aside the money spent to import kerosene and diesel within the same period.