Malam Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, says it is a shame that Nigeria remained a net importer of petroleum products.
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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to, in his second term, work towards ending, “Nigeria’s continued dependence on imported petroleum products”.
The Nigerian Navy on Sunday said it discovered a metal Barge MV JOSH 1 and a wooden boat drifting along Bolo Creek in Rivers State and recovered them on January 29.
The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr Maikanti Baru, says the corporation plans to bridge the gap of petroleum products supply in the country.
The Nigerian Labour Congress has cautioned the Federal Government against implementing the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund on the removal of subsidy on petroleum products in the country.
The Ekiti State Government on Saturday warned owners and operators of filling stations in the state to desist from hoarding of petroleum products or face the consequences.
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested four persons for allegedly supplying petroleum products to armed bandits in the forests.
The Department of Petroleum Resource, Gombe Field, has called on the independent marketers to desist from creating artificial scarcity of petroleum products during the yuletide.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to investigate the increasing rate of adulterated petroleum products and its negative impact in the country.
Moving the motion, Abiante noted that the Federal Government in 2005, in response to the plight and pitiable condition of communities in the riverine areas of Nigeria, occasioned by severe difficulty in getting petroleum products, and sometimes at exorbitant and unauthorised prices, directed the construction of floating mega stations to ameliorate the situation.
Attah made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
The NBS revealed this in its Foreign Trade Statistics for the Fourth Quarter of 2017
He said while the country does not intend to sell the existing refineries owned by the government, it would encourage private investors to establish new ones
According to the document, 21 of the expected ships are to bring in containers, 11 to sail in with food items such as rice, buckwheat, frozen fish and bulk sugar
It said the NNPC was quick to respond because of its determination to ensure that Nigerians do not undergo any form of scarcity in supply of petroleum products as a result of the activities of some unpatriotic citizens