The party wondered how a political party, which has been in power for 16 years and is unable to ensure that its citizens enjoy regular fuel supply, being an oil producing and endowed country, and electricity, having privatized the power sector and given generous financial assistance to operators of the power sector, can still feel confident to seek another term in office
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The two suspects, Rotanna Ifeanyi and Soji Omomoyesan, with others at large, allegedly caused the outbreak of the fire, while attempting to extract PMS
The minister made the accusation after an unscheduled inspection of 15 filling stations in Surulere, Ikoyi, Ajah and Iponri areas of Lagos State
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the defiant women joined their male counterparts due to congestion in the coaches
The marketers, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, disclosed that vessels laden with imported petroleum products had berth at the high sea
The Director of the DPR, represented by the Zonal Operations Controller, Abuja, Aliyu Halidu, stated this at the budget defence session before the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream)
The familiar trend of periodic scarcity of fuel is simply unacceptable. Nigeria remains about the sixth largest oil producing country in the world and “giant of Africa,” and one ordinarily expects this to translate to great fortune and comfort for the average Nigerian. Unfortunately this has not been the case as majority of the masses have remained impoverished in the midst of plenty
Some of the marketers, who spoke to NAN on anonymity, denied claims by Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation that marketers were hoarding the product
The NNPC appealed to marketers and members of the public to refrain from hoarding and panic buying
A check by a NAN correspondent indicated that the young men were seen carrying various sizes of fuel-filled gallons as they hustled for customers in different parts of Lagos
Lanre Oladele, the PPPRA Spokesperson, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that there was no basis for the scarcity currently being experienced
The DPR said that the routine inspection of petroleum retail outlets was to ensure availability of fuel sequel to reports of scarcity of the product
Meanwhile, the 2014 Appropriation bill on Thursday passed second reading on the floor of the House and was referred to the Committees on Appropriation and Finance for further legislative inputs
A statement issued in Abuja by Dr. Omar Ibrahim, the General Manager, Public Affairs Division, NNPC, advised members of the public not to panic
It was learnt that a four-litre container of the commodity, which used to sell for N450, now costs between N600 and N650
The NLC said it had observed in the last two months that government had done nothing to check the scarcity of fuel and was also watching marketers unilaterally increase the pump price