For allegations ranging from hoarding petrol to selling above stipulated pump price of N87 per litre, the Ekiti State Petroleum Consumers Protection Agency has shut five petrol stations indefinitely. Adeyemi Adebayo, Chairman of the Agency, disclosed this on Monday after monitoring sale of the commodity in Ado Ekiti noting that his men caught the affected…
Mu’azu Blames Fuel Scarcity on APC
Adamu Muazu, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, blamed the current fuel scarcity in the country on the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC. Reacting to the fuel scarcity in a tweeter message on Monday, Mu’azu said, “Concerned Nigerians have drawn our attention to the fact that some opposition leaders and vested…
Fuel Scarcity Hits Lagos, Abuja
Motorists and residents of Lagos, Abuja, Kwara and Oyo states are having hard times getting fuel at the filling stations as the nationwide strike embarked upon by oil workers has led to scarcity of fuel in some major cities in the country. Long queues are seen at different filling stations. Motorists now pay between N105…
NON-PAYMENT OF SUBSIDY CLAIMS RESPONSIBLE FOR FUEL SCARCITY-PPMC
The Management of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, has said that the lingering fuel scarcity in the country is as a result of the non-payment of subsidy claims to oil marketers. Prince Haruna Momoh, Managing Director of PPMC, who made this known in his submission before the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream…