This is as some filling stations were selling petrol between N250 to N300 per litre.
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Ebele expressed the worry in a statement on Thursday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Scarcity of petroleum products is biting hard in Badagry communities in Lagos State as the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria has suspended distribution of fuel to the area following a dispute with the Nigeria Customs Service.
There is fear of fuel scarcity in some local government areas of Kano State on Monday, following the reluctance of some marketers to dispense the Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol, in anticipation of a new pump price regime.
Despite assurances of availability of Premium Motor Spirit by Federal Government, many petrol stations in Osun were not selling the product, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers have urged Nigerians to stop panicking over fuel scarcity as there is sufficient product.
The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria on Friday urged Nigerians to stop panicking over the likelihood of fuel scarcity.
The organization alerted the Federal Government to the annual phenomenon of artificial fuel scarcity, which usually reared its ugly head at the approach of the end of the year
In a statement issued in Lagos, Alhaji Raheem Tayo, the Chairman Ibadan Chapter, IPMAN, said that the association was worried that the situation had persisted in spite of the intervention of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Receiving the Man of the Year Award from Nigeria NewsDirect newspaper, the NNPC GMD said that the corporation had learnt a great lesson during the recent fuel scarcity in the country.
The President of the union, Igwe Achese, told labour correspondents in Lagos on Friday that government must make a paradigm shift to resolve the energy crisis which has plagued Nigeria for decades.
The senior staff trade union expressed concern at the current fuel scarcity and attendant man-hours and energy Nigerians lost to queuing at fuel stations and considered this embarrassing to a nation.
‘Ourmumudondo’is a non-political coalition of Nigerians from all backgrounds that advocates national reawakening towards holding leaders responsible and ensuring good governance at all levels.
Ndu Ughamadu, the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that at the various motor parks, including roadsides, in Ilorin, passengers in their scores were waiting to board the few available commercial vehicles.
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu; Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura; and the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru.
The President, who stated this in a nationwide broadcast in Abuja on Monday to mark the New Year, attributed the hardships to the activities of few but heartless individuals working within the nation’s oil and gas sector
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that many filling stations in the commercial city have shut down with the exception of the NNPC Mega station at Hotoro area and the few stations owned by a popular marketer, AA Rano.
Soyinka said this in a statement on Saturday
Umar Ajiya, the Managing Director, Nigerian Product Marketing Company, also known as PPMC, had on December 13 warned illegal profiteers to desist or face losing their products.