Tag: PPPRA
Buhari appoints Obinna, Saidu as Chairman, Executive Secretary, PPPRA
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a Chairman, and an Executive Secretary for the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory…
Nigerian Govt announces new reduction in pump price of petrol
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has announced further reduction of the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)…
Fake News: Zahra Buhari didn’t secure employment with PPPRA – Presidency
The presidency on Wednesday described as Fake News an online report that Zahra, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has fraudulently…
Senate set to investigate PPPRA over non-remittance of N800bn for roads
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the Senate will investigate the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency over alleged…
No plan to increase petrol pump price – PPPRA
The Executive Secretary, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Abdulkadir Saidu, says the Federal Government has no plans to increases…
Filling stations forced to dispense product
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Wednesday monitored filling stations in Abuja to ensure that the limit of…
No attempt to hike fuel price by N5 – PPPRA
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, said Nigerians should ignore rumours of an impending hike in the price of…
FG subsidising petrol by N12 – PPPRA
The Federal Government on Monday said it was currently subsidising Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol at N12.62…
Fuel pump price will be reviewed quarterly – PPPRA
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has stated there will be a quarterly review of petroleum pump price in…
Kerosene to sell at N83 – PPPRA
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has increased the price of Household Kerosene from N50 to N83. This is…
Petrol will be sold for N86.50k per litre, not N85 – PPPRA
The Federal Government said as from January 1, 2016, all retail stations of the NNPC would start selling petrol at…
Naira devaluation responsible for fuel scarcity – PPPRA
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Tuesday blamed the current scarcity of petrol in the country on the…
At N87 per litre, FG still subsidises petrol – PPPRA
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Friday said that Federal Government was still subsidising the current pump price…
Petrol, diesel prices: APC urges PDP stop stealing from Nigerians
The All Progressives Congress has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led Federal Government to allow Nigerians enjoy the relief…
Court discharges fuel subsidy scam suspect
Henry Ojelu Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Ikeja High Court, Lagos today discharged an accountant, Ezekiel Ejidele of the charges…
FOI: Kano Seeks Information On Petroleum Fund
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja The Kano State Government on Tuesday secured leave from a federal high court siting in Abuja to institute…
PPPRA reduces petroleum licensees from 40 to 27
Nigeria’s downstream regulator, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Authority (PPPRA) Nigeria has reduced the number of companies licensed to import petroleum…
A Contrived Fuel Scarcity
Following the hardship Nigerians are subjected to daily, the prevailing fuel scarcity across the country demands that a serious and…
The Return Of Fuel Scarcity
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Without doubt, the availability of petroleum, a major by-product of crude oil, is crucial to the continuous…
Subsidy money: PPPRA slams audit report
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has debunked the audit report of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI)…
Nigeria saves N671b in oil subsidy claims
Nigeria’s Federal Government saved N671 billion in fuel subsidy claims within the past 10 months, following stringent measures adopted by…
Court Moves To Enforce FOI Act
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s recently passed Freedom of Information Act, FIOA, was further strengthened by a Federal High Court…
Petrol scarcity: Senate panel summons oil minister, others
Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) has invited top petroleum officials to a consultative meeting over the perennial scarcity of…
Fuel queues resurface in Abuja
Few days to the Eid-el Fitri celebrations, fuel queues for petrol, long a familiar feature in bye gone years, have…
Ribadu: I’ll catch oil subsidy thieves in 7 days
DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja The pioneer Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Malam Nuhu Ribadu has boasted that should he be given…
PPPRA bites, sanctions Swiss Company
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has suspended NIMEX Petroleum Ltd, an oil trading company from Switzerland, from supplying…
Now Our Suffering Begins
The sudden removal of the subsidy on premium motor spirit, also known as petrol, by the Petroleum Product Pricing and…
Removal Of Subsidy Callous, A Declaration Of War – Labour, Opposition Parties
Federal Government’s final deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry which has led to increase in the pump…
Nigeria’s Petrol sells for N141 per litre
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Despite strong opposition from labour unions, civil society groups and other interest groups, the Federal Government, in what…
Yuletide: Fear Grips Travellers Over Fuel Scarcity
Nigerians have began to express fear over possible scarcity of fuel with the Christmas and New Year celebrations just within…