By Henry Umoru ABUJA—WORRIED by unending queues at petrol stations across the country, Senate, yesterday, gave a seven-day ultimatum to Federal Government and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to nip the crisis in the bud. The resolution of the Senate was sequel to unanimous adoption of a report of the Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources […]

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office has sealed 28 additional petrol stations in the last nine days in Delta.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Sunday said that it had released 250 trucks of petrol to Lagos metropolis for effective dispensing at filling stations to forestall any scarcity.

Queues emerge in Abuja, Kano, Warri, other cities Tanker drivers urge FG to fix Jebba- Mokwa road, Tatabu Bridge  DPR clamps down on illegal oil marketers By Udeme Akpan, Michael Eboh, Jimitota Onoyume, AbdulSalam Muhammad, Ediri Ejoh, Prince Okafor, Anayo Okoli Despite assurances by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of a return to normalcy […]

Some filling stations in Badagry town of Lagos State are selling petrol between N180 to N210 per litre, newsmen report.

Fuel scarcity has apparently not abated in Kwara, as parents and students among other residents, on Monday, expressed dissatisfaction with the lingering problem.

Dr Titus Okunronmu, a former Director, Budgetary Department, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Monday, advised the Federal Government to repair all the four refineries in the country.

On assumption office of the current President, the price of fuel was increased to bring an end to the subsidy racket. But whether the racket will ever end is an issue that no one can answer because the ghosts seem to be at work again

THERE are indications that the National Assembly will soon appropriate funds for the settlement of N800 billion subsidy debts to oil marketers as part of moves to enable them import petroleum products.

The subsidy game has been a political one and has not been played on the rings of economic data

THERE are indications that the persistent fuel scarcity in the country may take a long time to end as a meeting involving the Federal Government, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Department of Petroleum Resources, Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, ended with no clear road-map.

Indeed, until we sort out the injustice in the oil sector, situations like we have every Christmas season will continue

Motorists in Benin, the Edo capital, have started to heave a sign of relief as long queues that characterised filling stations in recent weeks in the metropolis have started disappearing.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, blamed the current fuel scarcity ravaging the nation on blackmailers, who, according to him, “instead of showing love, companionship and charity… chose this period to inflict severe hardship on us all by creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country.

NIGERIANS are obviously outraged by allegations of a deliberate arrangement by marketers to foster fuel scarcity, during major public holidays, especially the year end festivities. Indeed, low and stable pricing and the elimination of scarcity were campaign platforms of the current administration.