Fuel scarcity

Days after oil marketers issued a seven-day ultimatum to demand payment of the N800 billion outstanding subsidy debt under the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF), the federal government said it offered the marketers N340 billion in promissory…

Nigerians may experienced a difficult Yuletide following Oil marketers’ seven-day ultimatum to the federal government to pay the outstanding N800 billion subsidy debts to avoid shut down of oil depots across the country. The threat…

There may be shortage of fuel next week as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has pledged its loyalty to the Nigeria Labour Congress and any step that the NLC decides to take. The Federal Government on Friday obtained…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), on Wednesday warned that the delay in the completion of the maintenance work at the Ejigbo Satellite Depot by Pipelines Products Marketing Company (PPMC) could cause fuel…

Charlyboy, the convener of ‘Our Mumu Don Do’ movement on Wednesday, alongside his group barricaded the headquarters of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations (NNPC) to protest the lingering fuel scarcity biting hard on Nigerians. The…

Nigerians will soon heave a sigh of relief as newly trained Dangote Refinery graduate engineers have promised an end to the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country when the Refinery takes off. The engineers just returned from a training…

Organised labour on Friday threatened to embark on strike if the ongoing fuel shortage ravaging the nation extends to next year. A press statement issued on Friday said it also hailed the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, for…

Senate President Bukola Saraki has directed the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut short its recess and immediately convene a meeting with stakeholders in the industries. This he said was in a bid to end the…

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office,  has blamed oil marketers for the current fuel scarcity being experienced in Warri and its environs. The Head, Upstream of the DPR, Mr Ogbe Nicholas, made the remark on…

Travellers going to Asaba, Onitsha, Enugu and Port-Harcourt were on Monday, December 18 stranded at the popular Agofure Motor park as transporters have now increased fares over fuel scarcity in Warri. Filling Stations were locked down…