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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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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The Federal Government of Nigeria, at the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, mandated Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of petroleum resources, and Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to clear the fuel queues in Abuja and Lagos by the weekend. Lai Mohammed, the minister of information, who briefed journalists about […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has called on Nigerians to remain calm as not resort to panic buying of petroleum products, as there will be no increase in petrol prices during the festive period. The NNPC, in a statement, said the ex-depot petrol price of N133.38 per litre and the pump price of N143/N145 […]
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