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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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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The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has taken advantage of the ongoing fuel scarcity to lambast President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor who ordered 80 percent of the petrol in the government house dump to be pumped out and sold at N145 per litre, said he took the action because the president did not have […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken on the fuel scarcity bedeviling the nation. This is the first time the president is speaking directly concerning the situation. Expressing regrets over the situation, the president thanked Nigerians for their patience. He said he had received assurances from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that the crisis would be resolved. […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Tuesday said it released 300 trucks of petrol to Lagos and 170 to Abuja, to stem long queues at filling stations. NNPC Spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu, announced the release in a statement in Abuja. This followed the call-off of the strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff […]
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, is set to embark on indefinite, nationwide strike beginning from Monday. According to the association, the strike became necessary following a stalemate in the peace meeting brokered by the minister of petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, between the association and Neconde Energy Limited. PENGASSAN and […]
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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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