High fuel price: Low passenger traffic hits transporters hard
Operators say the dual pressure of high operating costs and low patronage is crippling the sector, with inter-state minibus services worst hit
Keke riders protest fuel scarcity, cost in Delta
By Jimitota Onoyume Warri – Commercial tricycle riders, Wednesday, staged a protest in Warri and Uvwie local government areas over the scarcity of fuel and the astronomic hike in its pump price. They marched through Deco, Airport roads, denouncing the unbearable cost of a litre of fuel at filling stations. As of the time of […]
Protests rock Abuja over fuel scarcity
Nigerians have on Monday stormed Abuja in protest against fuel scarcity.
End fuel scarcity, Nigerians are suffering – Ex-lawmaker urges Tinubu
Shina Abubakar, Osogbo A former member of the Osun State House of Assembly, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country with a view to ending it. He added that Nigerians are already going through a lot of hardship than to combine queuing at filing stations […]
Fuel scarcity: Calling for Kyari’s sack ‘mischievous’, Ex militant leader, Akpodoro
Mayor of Urhoboland and ex-militant leader, Eshanekpe Israel a.k.a Akpodoro, has described the call by certain persons and groups to sack the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, as mischievous and uncharitable.
Petrol scarcity worsens as independent marketers load at N780/litre
THE prolonged petrol scarcity worsened in Lagos, Ogun and other states, yesterday, as independent marketers started lifting the product from private depots at N780 per litre, from N595 per litre, indicating an increase of 31 per cent.
Fuel scarcity: IPMAN accuses NNPCL of deliberately withholding petroleum products from members
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Mosimi Depot, in Ogun State, on Tuesday, blamed the current fuel scarcity in the Southwest region of the country on the refusal of the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) to make petroleum products available to its members three months after payment.
Fuel Scarcity: At N850/ltr queues resurface in Lagos; motorists, commuters groan
They were selling the product to desperate motorists at exorbitant rates of up to ₦1,000 to ₦1,400 per litre
Fuel scarcity: Motorists, commuters groan as price hits N850 per litre in Lagos
Amid heavy gridlock, motorists and commuters in Lagos have lamented over the sudden scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly called petrol, forcing an increase in transport fares by commercial bus drivers, the “Danfos and Koropes,” within the city.
Scarcity: Fuel shortage, queues worsen in Lagos, Abuja, others
The nation’s fuel shortage appears to have worsened, yesterday, as filling stations ran out of stocks, thus shutting their gates against motorists and other users of the product.
Marketers remain upbeat as petrol scarcity enters third week
Petrol supply challenges facing the country entered its third week yesterday with marketers remaining upbeat about the situation…
