Tag: petrol
Filling stations in Kuje resume sale of petrol
Some filling stations in Kuje Area Council in the FCT, have started selling Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) barely 48-hours after…
Woman Burns Ex-Lover To Death
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The police in Benin, the Edo State capital, southern Nigeria, have arrested and detained a 35-year-old woman, Esohe…
DPR set to end sale of petrol on black market
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said that it will collaborate with relevant security agencies to dismantle black market…
Civil Servants Abandon Duties In Search Of Fuel
Many civil servants in Jos abandoned their duty posts on Wednesday in search of petrol as acute scarcity of the…
Panic buying of petrol in Ibadan
Despite assurances given by the Nigerian government that there is enough petrol stock to last 30 days, hundreds of vehicles…
Fuel scarcity spreads
Long queues have been reported at filling stations in many states of Nigeria as fuel scarcity spreads, even as the…
Man, 87, Killed With Acid Over Land
Members of the family of Alhaji Muniru Okeowo, 87, who was allegedly killed with acid on Thursday at his residence…
Jilted Jobless Man Burns Lover’s Apartment
The police at Takwa Bay Division, Lekki, Eti Osa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested and arraigned a man, Godspower Ikechukwu,…
Nigeria: Petrol costs N250 in Bayelsa State
Petrol is being sold at N250 per litre in some parts of Bayelsa state, a major oil producing state and…
Worker Sets Colleague Ablaze Over N500
A man unleashed his anger on his co-worker for withholding his N500 after work. He fetched some petrol and set…
Jonathan’s Govt And Need For Public Trust
During President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign, he told Nigerians that he passed through poverty in his early days and that…
LAWMA To Enforce Use Of Public Toilets In Filling Stations
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is to ensure that petrol stations in the state complied with the requirement that…
SURE Was Programmed To Fail
President Goodluck Jonathan’s announcement on Monday at the 58th National Executive Meeting of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, that the…
Lagos Island Boils, 4 Dead, Houses, Vehicles Burnt
Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria was a theatre of war this morning as scores of youths from Idungaran in Isale…
Petrol Tanker Fire Wreaks Havoc In Lagos
A truck conveying premium motor spirit or petrol, as it is commonly called, has reportedly exploded in Lagos, causing extensive…