Vehicular queues have resurfaced in some filling stations in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as fear of possible scarcity of petrol continues to grow. The queues are mostly in NNPC filling stations as most private fuel stations have remained closed. Some car owners expressed shock over the imminent scarcity of petrol. Others have complained […]
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Oil marketers have given the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to settle outstanding debts to the sum of N800 billion, failing which depots would cease operation across the country. The marketers, comprising Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) and Independent Petroleum Products Importers (IPPIs), said failure to […]
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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Thursday expressed worries over the looming fuel scarcity in Ibadan due to non-availability of the product at the depot. In a statement issued in Lagos, Alhaji Raheem Tayo, the Ibadan Chapter IPMAN Chairman, said that the association was worried that the situation had persisted in spite […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it supplied a total of 29.058 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol to thirteen Northern states in three days. In its report on daily dispatch to filling stations made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, it named […]
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Returnee indigenous India trained Graduate engineers of the Dangote Refinery have promised to deploy the knowledge and skills acquired during the training to ensure Nigeria is saved the embarrassment of fuel scarcity when the refinery come on stream. The engineers who described their experience as second to none in the history of Nigeria oil and […]
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Barely three weeks after Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), said they have tamed the monster of fuel scarcity, long vehicle queues at petrol stations can be seen returning to Lagos. Responding to the development, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Sunday said that it had released 250 […]
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The speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has strongly condemned the killings in various parts of the country, stating that all is not well. Giving his address to lawmakers when they resumed from recess on Tuesday, Dogara frowned at the violence in Benue, Taraba, Kaduna, Rivers, Zamfara, and Adamawa states. “Indeed at no […]
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Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has said the many challenges including fuel scarcity faced in Nigeria currently, have continued to overshadow the call for restructuring. He said this on Saturday in an article titled ‘Blame passing — the New Year gift to a nation’. Soyinka said such challenges have monopolised the attention of Nigerians. “Even […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to embark on a strike should the fuel scarcity currently being experienced exceeds December. Isa Aremu, a chieftain of the Labour organisaton said this in a statement issued in Kaduna. Aremu said the situation might compel Nigerians to return to street protests as they had done in the […]
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Dr. Maikanti Baru, group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Friday said that the federal government has been able to ‘tame the monster’ of fuel scarcity in the country. Baru said this in an interview with State House correspondents after joining fellow Muslims for Jumat service in a mosque at the Presidential Villa, […]
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