Nigeria, April 28 -- Following Friday's tanker fire that killed at least five persons and destroyed several vehicles and houses in the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers State, the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) is seeking safer methods of transporting petroleum products across the country.

Chairman of the Forum, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Sunday, said that discussions were ongoing among the 36 state governors and strategic federal agencies in the oil and gas industry to achieve the objective.

He made the disclosure at the Government House, Port Harcourt, during a visit to commiserate with the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the people of the state over the tanker inferno.

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