As a way of improving its renewable energy effort to de-emphasise dependence on the national grid, the Centre for Renewable Energy Technology (CRET) of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, has developed solar-powered generators – FUTA Solar Box I and FUTA Solar Box 2. The generators of various capacities which components include Lithium Polymer Battery, […]
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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says 12 ships laden with various products, including petrol, are at the Lagos ports waiting to berth. The NPA disclosed on Tuesday in its daily “Shipping Position” made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, that eight of the vessels was waiting to berth with petrol. It […]
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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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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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The Senate on Thursday urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to, within seven days end lingering scarcity of petrol and clear queues in filling stations across the country. This followed a unanimous adoption of report of the Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) on the fuel crisis in the country, at plenary. In the report […]
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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 Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) have called for the total deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the country’s oil and gas industry. The marketers under the aegis of IPMAN and DAPPMA told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos that this […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday advised the All Progressive Congress, APC-led federal government not to consider hiking fuel price from the present N145 per litre, saying such would be unacceptable. In a statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, the PDP alleged its investigations had shown that the federal government […]
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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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Oil marketers have given a response to President Muhammadu Buhari, who in a national broadcast on January 1, accused them of being the cause of the current fuel scarcity. At a meeting with President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, on Tuesday, the Depot and Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, DAPMAN, said the current price […]
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