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Fuel scarcity: Airlines warn of imminent disruptions to Flights

Ihesiulo Grace 17 May 2022 0

The Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON) has warned that the flight operations of its members may experience disruptions due to a growing scarcity of aviation fuel (Jet-A1). A statement signed by AON’s spokesperson Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, said the “The scarcity is impacting negatively on seamless

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Fuel Scarcity: Hits US as citizens buy fuel in plastic bags and kegs

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2021 0

The US is currently experiencing fuel scarcity and people are already panic buying. The fuel scarcity is due to a shutdown of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline by hackers. Gas stations from Florida to Virginia began running dry and prices at the pump rose on Tuesday, May 11, as the shutdown of the biggest U.S. […]

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More woes for Nigerians as fuel scarcity returns

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2020 0

By Doosuur Iwambe A few weeks after the #EndSARS protests hit various states in Nigeria, the aftermath of the demonstrations has started biting hard on Nigerians who are already spending long hours in queues at gas stations, Daily Times gathered. A visit at some filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday revealed that […]

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Jonathan should be blamed for fuel scarcity — Lai Mohammed

Ihesiulo Grace 14 September 2020 0

As Nigerians continue to endure unprecedented misery due to the country’s current fuel scarcity, the Federal Government has blamed the crisis on the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. As gathered by Daily Times, the government said Jonathan was to blame because his government never included sufficient fuel subsidy provision in the budget for 2015.

Politics

Fuel scarcity looms Kwara, Speaker cries out

Ihesiulo Grace 7 January 2020 0

 The Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, Mr Yakubu Danladi, has expressed concern over fuel scarcity in four districts of Baruten Local Government Area of the state. Danladi cried out during a courtesy visit to Compt. Mohammed Garba, the newly posted Border Drill Sector Coordinator, Sector 3, Ilorin, on Monday. READ ALSO Oshiomhole should heed to […]

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PENGASSAN visits agencies, profers solutions to lingering fuel scarcity

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2018 0

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called for rehabilitation of the refineries, depots and other oil and gas infrastructural facilities as the solutions to end the current rounds of fuel scarcity in the country. A statement signed by the National Public Relations Officer, PENGASSAN, Comrade Fortune Obi said that […]

Business

Fuel scarcity: Dangote Refinery returnee graduate engineers promise to end challenge

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2018 0

…say they are well honed to address it Desirous to reduce the hardships facing Nigerians, especially occasioned by perennial fuel scarcity in the country, returnee indigenous India- trained graduate engineers of the Dangote Refinery have promised to arrest it. The said they would deploy the knowledge and skills acquired during the training to ensure Nigeria […]

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Fuel scarcity: Baru berates FG over porous border

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2018 0

…Says NNPC Can’t Guarantee effective distribution The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has raised alarm over the sustained nefarious activities of some cross-border fuel smuggling syndicates and hoarders which have so far impeded efforts by the Corporation to sanitize the fuel supply and distribution matrix across the country. Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group

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Reps probes loss N7.6trn crude oil revenue loss to international oil coys

Ihesiulo Grace 19 January 2018 0

The House of Representatives on Thursday, resolved to probe the loss of $21 billion (about N7.6 trillion) crude oil revenue to oil multinationals operating in the country following the persistent fuel scarcity in parts of the country. The investigation will be carried out by an ad hoc committee to be constituted by the Speaker, House […]

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Petrol scarcity bites harder in Jigawa

Ihesiulo Grace 8 January 2018 0

As petrol scarcity bites harder in Dutse, residents have urged the Federal Government to take decisive measures to restore normalcy in the supply of the product to the Jigawa capital. A correspondent who visited all the filling stations in Jigawa state capital, reported that only the NNPC Mega Station was dispensing petroleum products to long […]

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Anxiety as marketers say fuel scarcity may linger on

Ihesiulo Grace 5 January 2018 0

.Insist FG owes independent marketers N800bn subsidy debt .Functional refineries will end fuel crises- Kachikwu Nigerians may wait longer for the much desired relief, following pains and losses they have been facing over perennial fuel scarcity nationwide as the independent marketers, one of the critical stakeholders in the oil sector have disclosed that fuel scarcity […]

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Yuletide: ATMs, fuel scarcity mar celebrations

Ihesiulo Grace 27 December 2017 0

* Fuel scarcity easing in Lagos as fun seekers shun N’Theatre * Osinbajo: NNPC, not FG, bears cost do subsidy * Our depots empty, we’re not hoarding fuel-marketers The combination of fuel scarcity and the inability of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to dispense cash to bank customers have prevented some Nigerians from marking the Yuletide […]

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Nigerians to Buhari: It’s time to end fuel scarcity

Ihesiulo Grace 26 December 2017 0

.President orders clampdown on hoarders ·Enough of hardships, Labour warns Like a nagging sore on the finger, the ongoing scarcity of petroleum products has refused to go, but instead, it has continued to visit homes, offices, businesses with impactful pains and another round of bleak future. Despite the assurance given by President Muhammadu Buhari to […]

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Fuel scarcity: Black marketers are kings

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2017 0

Labour: Enough of orchestrated hardships Nigerians are now groaning in pains as fuel scarcity continues to bite harder, Nigerians are finding it extremely difficult to move from one city to another. Selling of fuel at black market continued unabated as a litre now goes for between N250 and N350 at petrol stations while four litre […]

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PDP ask Buhari to end fuel scarcity

Ihesiulo Grace 22 December 2017 0

…Says Nigerians languishing under his rule The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, as Minister of Petroleum Resources, to find a quick solution to the lingering fuel scarcity now ravaging all parts of the country. The PDP, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday insisted that […]

Analysis Oil & Gas

It’s one step forward, two backward for FG as another fuel scarcity looms

Ihesiulo Grace 5 October 2017 0

If there is one thing Nigerians dread, it is fuel scarcity as it heralds several other pains. However, it seems Nigerians should prepare as another fuel scarcity looms large in the horizon, if indications coming from the various unions involved are anything to go by. For the Federal Government (FG), though, it’s back to the […]

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UPDATE: PPPRA denies reports of imminent fuel scarcity, ask Nigerians to stop panic buying

Ihesiulo Grace 20 January 2017 0

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has denied reports in some quarters that there may soon be fuel scarcity in the country due to a N660 Billion unpaid debt owed some oil marketers. According to a statement released by the PPPRA, Nigeria has months of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) sufficiency. Read the statement after […]

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Marketers Deregulate Fuel Sale, Price Hits N150

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2015 0

Consumers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol have continued to lament as the price of product has risen from N87 to about N150 per litre in different parts of the nation. Investigations showed the rise in price is fuelled by many irregularities, including extortion at depots, jetties and filling stations. It was […]

Analysis

How long will this hemorrhage continue?

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2015 0

Regrettable as the pains suffered by Nigerians more than one week now due to the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise called petrol, one clear fact that has emerged is that until the massive importation of the product is eliminated and the nation’s refining capacity enhanced through revamping existing refineries and building of new […]

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Fuel Scarcity: Civil Defence Boss Directs Squad to Clampdown on Illegal Dealers

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

  The Commandant General of the Corps, Dr. Ade Abolurin has ordered the Anti-Vandal Squad of the Corps to clampdown on illegal marketers of petroleum products, product diversion, unnecessary hike in pump prices and black marketers. The order came as unending fuel scarcity has continued to bite harder on motorists and users of the premium […]