Tag: DPR
DPR recovers 114,000 litres of diverted petrol
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it recovers 114,000 litres of petrol diverted by three filling stations in Yola,…
DPR denies demanding bribe
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has denied demanding for bribe from a retired Navy Captain and an Aviation Consultant…
Filling stations in Ogun adjust meters to ‘extort’ buyers
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Owners of most filling stations across Abeokuta, the capital city of Ogun state, have devised another way…
Pump Price: DPR to fine violators N1m, shut stations
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said that henceforth, any oil marketer caught manipulating the pump price of fuel…
Filling stations shut in Ogun
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The axe of the officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Thursday evening, fell on some filling…
New pump price: Filling stations in Ogun yet to comply
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Most filling stations in Ogun state, western Nigeria, are yet to comply with the federal government directives on…
Petrol new pump price: DPR begins enforcement
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has begun to visit filling stations in Plateau to ensure that major and independent…
Pump price: DPR to go tough on erring marketers
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday read the riot act to filling stations who sell petrol above official…
DPR begins 24-hour surveillance on depots, filling stations
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it has set up a 24-hour special task force to supervise and monitor…
Fuel Scarcity: Osun residents demand DPR’s intervention
Some residents of Osun, on Saturday, called on the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to end the scarcity of petroleum…
DPR seals 39 filling stations in Kano
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Kano said it has sealed 39 filling stations within the last two weeks…
DPR seals 200 filling stations, 25 depots in A/Ibom, C/River
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Eket, Akwa Ibom, on Sunday said it sealed 200 petrol filling stations within six…
DPR seals petrol tank-farm in Calabar
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday suspended operations of FINEFIELD Petroleum in Calabar, the Cross River State capital,…
DPR seals 12 filling stations in Abuja
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed 12 filling stations in Abuja for profiteering and selling above government approved…
DPR shuts 23 private petroleum products depots
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has shut 23 private petroleum products depots across the country for selling Premium Motor…
DPR set to sanction depot owners, major marketers who sell above depot price
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Thursday said that it would not hesitate to sanction depot owners and major…
DPR collected N30bn illegally, says Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has suggested that the Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR) illegally collected about N30billion by deducting cost of…
Fuel queues in Abuja will disappear soon, says DPR
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said that fuel queues in Abuja will soon disappear as 3.2 million litres…
FG appoints Ladan to oversee DPR
The Federal Government has appointed Mordecai Danteni Ladan, to oversee the activities of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), a…
Stop harassing marketers, DPR tells task force
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday appealed to the State Task Force on Petroleum against harassment, extortion and…
DPR to destroy 150 illegal petrol stations in Akwa Ibom
Asuquo Antai, Controller of Operations, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), said on Thursday the organisation would begin to demolish over…
Scarcity: DPR investigates petroleum products depots in Lagos
The Department of Petroleum Department (DPR) might have commenced investigation on erring petroleum products marketers following the subsisting national energy…
Fuel Scarcity: 643 trucks of petrol supplied to FCT -DPR
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday said 643 trucks of petrol were supplied to Abuja between last Thursday…
167 trucks of petrol supplied to Abuja – DPR
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said on Wednesday that 167 trucks of petrol were supplied to Abuja on Tuesday…
Sanction erring fuel marketers, Diezani directs DPR, PPPRA
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has called on the public to shun panic buying and stock-piling of petrol, especially…
Fuel Scarcity: DPR to punish stations hoarding petrol
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday threatened to clamped down indefinitely any petrol filling station engaged in hoarding.…
Senate summons NNPC to defend budget
Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream has summoned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to appear before it on Thursday to…
Petrol Price: DPR threatens to punish erring filling stations
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Monday urged all filling stations to adjust their pump price per litre of…
Fuel scarcity: DPR releases 335 trucks to Abuja
The Department of Petroleum Resources, Abuja, said 335 trucks of petroleum products were released from the depot between Monday and…
DPR sanctions 20 oil marketers in for sharp practices
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said it had sanctioned 20 petroleum marketers in Abuja in the last one week…