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Residents defy environmental sanitation order, besiege banks, filling stations in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2023 0

BY NOSA AKENZUA Most residents of Warri South, Asaba, and Uvwie Local Government Areas defied Delta State Government’s movement restriction order in the last environmental exercise. No thanks to the prevailing problems of change of old currency, acute fuel scarcity and hike in the price

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Commuters, motorists groan as petrol queues resurface

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2021 0

…Black marketers take over, NNPC moves to end scarcity Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Long queues of motorists resurfaced Monday, in most petrol filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other cities in adjoining states of Niger and Nasarawa, respectively, over planned strike action by members of the National Association of Road Transport Owners/Petroleum

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Gov Zulum to set up 4 mega filling stations in Borno

Ihesiulo Grace 4 April 2020 0

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has unveiled plans by the state government to establish four mega filling stations to enhance fuel supply in the state. Zulum disclosed this on  Saturday in Maiduguri when the Zonal Operation Controller of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Northeast, Mr Ibrahim Ciroma, with some stakeholders in the oil business […]

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DPR sanctions 39 erring filling stations over sharp practices in February

Ihesiulo Grace 6 March 2018 0

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DRP) on Monday said that about 39 erring filing stations was sanctioned in February for various offenses ranging from under dispensing, hoarding and selling above pump price. Mr Wole Akinyosoye, the DPR Zonal Operations Controller, Lagos office said in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos that agency would […]

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Petrol: DPR seals 80 filling stations in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 4 January 2018 0

More than 80 petrol filling stations have been shut in Delta state for selling above official price and hoarding. The stations were sealed by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office, since fuel scarcity begun in December, 2017. According to the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), Mr. Antai Asuquo, the Warri Zonal Operations Controller, said […]