The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, made this known on Tuesday.
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The seven others are the Registered Trustees of the NURTW; Registered Trustees Of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN); Registered Trustees Of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO).
The group also commended the NNPC and NMDPRA for demonstrating transparency, promoting accountability and also for their pragmatic response in ensuring that Nigerians have sufficient supply of petrol despite the disruption in some parts of the country.
The transporters, under the aegis of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) after a guided tour of the refinery plant in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos, said they had no doubt that the project would generally accelerate the development of Nigeria’s oil and gas sector; just as they also expressed the willingness to play a good role in the distribution of refined products from Dangote refinery when it starts operations.
The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Bisi Kazeem, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has called on the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners to sustain more collaborative partnership among members.
Edo Government says it is planning to introduce the use of scratch cards as a mode of collecting revenues in the transport sector, to eliminate revenue diversion and ensure transparency.
Inuwa, the NARTO official in charge of Dry Cargo Section, Tin-Can Island Port, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The Sector Commander, Angus Ibezim, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Wednesday.
He observed that filling stations outside the FCT and Lagos sold at higher prices before the deregulation, adding that if the new price was adhered to, the situation would be better
He said: “If we continue to tie road maintenance to annual budgets, the raining season would have set in before a budget is passed.
“So, I think there should be a special fund
The Association also said in the communiqué, signed by its National President, Alhaji Kassim Ibrahim Bataiya, that the Nigerian masses have to spend so much on commercial transport due to the sudden hike in transport fares occasioned by the scarcity
This was contained in a communique issued at the end of PEF Management Board meeting in Abuja with NARTO officials and executives of other relevant unions in the oil and gas sector
The association said that it was under pressure from its members to suspend its operations of distributing petroleum products all over the country pending when the issues will be resolved