The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has revealed how additional 3,000 megawatts of electricity can be generated from the current gas being flared in the country. The means of generating more megawatts of electricity is contained in DPR’s report made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at a workshop organised for energy journalists in […]
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Mr Bassey Nkanga, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Operations Controller in charge of the state says it has sealed six petrol stations in Cross River over diversion of products and price hike. Nkanga made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Calabar. Nkanga said that the stations […]
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More than 80 petrol filling stations have been shut in Delta state for selling above official price and hoarding. The stations were sealed by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office, since fuel scarcity begun in December, 2017. Mr Antai Asuquo, the Warri Zonal Operations Controller, said on Wednesday in Warri that the filling […]
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Motorists jubilated on Monday at Mani Petrol Station, Mowe, Ogun State as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) offered them free petrol. The free fuel by the DPR was the result of a sanction imposed on the owner of the station, who had ignored an earlier warning to dispense fuel at the regulated price of […]
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Mohammed Saidu, head public affairs unit of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), says petroleum marketers diverted 129,000 liters of petrol from Abuja on Friday. Saidu, who revealed this monitoring the stations, added that some of the erring filling stations had been given a total fine of more than N30.5 million. According to him, more […]
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The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, on Tuesday said it will impose a fine of N20 million fine on any depot selling Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) above the approved ex-depot price of N132.50 per litre. Wole Akinyosoye, the agency’s Zonal Operations Controller, Lagos, said selling PMS above the approved ex-depot price would attract a N20 million fine […]
Continue ReadingThe Department of Petroleum Resources, Eket, Akwa Ibom, said it sealed 41 filling stations for selling petrol above the government approved N87 pump price per litre in the state. Mr Asuquo Antai, DPR’s Controller, Operations, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Eket, headquarters of Eket Local Government Area of the […]
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Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole who has been in the news in recent times over his allegations on the misappropriation of funds in the last administration, says he will not be silent when people are abusing power and stealing government funds. Oshiomole, who was a guest at a seminar organized by the Post-Mortem sub-committee of […]
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