Tag: fuel scarcity
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…
A Nation In Pains And Adrift
Nigerians are in pains. Their anguish is too much to bear. For weeks, they had no fuel to power their…
Outcry Over Subsidy Removal
Eromosele Ebhomele Except the incoming Muhammadu Buhari administration wades into Nigeria’s oil crisis which has almost grounded the country, a…
Fuel Scarcity: Black marketers source product from Cotonou
The lingering scarcity of petroleum products in the country which has caused petrol to be sold at between N4,500 and…
Fuel Scarcity: NLC set to order workers to stay home
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday threatened to direct workers to stay at home if the fuel scarcity being…
Fuel Scarcity: Airtel may pull the plugs
Telecommunication outfit, Airtel has issued a statement on the current diesel and petroleum product scarcity in Nigeria, noting that, the…
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Energy crisis grounds economic activities, MTN warns of operational disruptions
Social and economic activities in Nigeria is gradually grinding to a halt as acute energy crisis is forcing many businesses…
Ben Bruce proffers solution to fuel scarcity, suffers backlash
Ben Murray-Bruce, chairman Silverbird Group and Bayelsa East senator-elect has proffered a solution to the lingering fuel scarcity but his…
Senate calls for immediate probe of lingering fuel scarcity
The Senate on Thursday in Abuja mandated its Committee on Petroleum (Downstream, Upstream) to investigate the lingering fuel scarcity in…
Ending Fuel Scarcity
For over three weeks now, Nigerians have had to grapple with another episode of fuel scarcity which has become a…
Buhari should fix refineries to end scarcity – Lawmaker-elect
A newly elected member of the Niger House of Assembly, Malik Madaki, on Monday urged the incoming Muhammadu Buhari administration…
Fuel Scarcity And The Agony Of Nigerians
By Tayo Ogunbiyi It started like a trivial development that would soon fizzle out with time. Most government officials that…
Fuel scarcity: We’ll supply adequate petrol – Marketers
The Major Oil Markers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) has assured the public of adequate supply of the Premium Motor Spirit…
Scarcity: Fuel sells for N250 per litre in Oyo
Fuel scarcity being experienced in some parts of the country had resulted in a sharp increase in pump price of…
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FG pays oil marketers N156bn, but fuel scarcity persists
*Marketers get N500 billion cumulatively since December, wait for bank alerts before importing fuel Nigeria’s Federal Government on Thursday said…
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Fuel Scarcity: Jonathan Orders Marketers To Be Paid
Jamiu Yisa The fuel scarcity across the country may soon end as President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered that oil marketers…
DSS explains why there’s petrol scarcity
The Department of State Services (DSS) said investigation revealed that the current petrol scarcity in the Northern part of the…
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Which Is Worse: Postponement Of The Election Or Fuel Scarcity?
On Saturday, 7 February, Nigerians woke up to the shocking news about the postponment of the general elections, initially scheduled…
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.…
Fuel Scarcity: Nigeria at the mercy of imports, says Buhari
General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, presidential candidate has lamented the fuel scarcity that has hit the country, noting…
$12bn gas fund loot, fraud responsible for fuel scarcity – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the real causes of the debilitating fuel scarcity across the country is the…
Fuel Scarcity Worsens In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga & Jamiu Yisa Fuel scarcity has worsened in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, with long queues observed in filling stations…
Only FG can stop petrol scarcity in Rivers, says IPMAN
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Consumers of petroleum products in Rivers state and environs will continue to increase above the official pump…
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…
The Looming Fuel Scarcity
Unless immediate action is taken by the government, another round of fuel scarcity will hit the country very soon. This…
Fire Guts Mobil Petrol Station, 5 Vehicles Burnt
Kazeem Ugbodaga At least five vehicles were burnt this morning after fire gutted Mobil petrol station on Oba Akran Avenue/Akilo…
A Contrived Fuel Scarcity
Following the hardship Nigerians are subjected to daily, the prevailing fuel scarcity across the country demands that a serious and…
30 Petrol Stations Shut Over Illegal Hike In Fuel Price
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DRP) has shut 30 filling stations in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states for selling petroleum…
Diezani blames fuel scarcity on diversion of supplies
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Sunday blamed the current scarcity of petrol nationwide to the diversion…