Security agents and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) monitoring team have discovered 144 trucks of petrol not streamed by some marketers in Kano. The NNPC Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Ughamadu stated that the team was set up to rapidly end petroleum…
As against several appeals to Nigerians that the federal government has no plans to increase pump price of petroleum motor spirit (PMS) in the country, many independent fuel marketers in Ekiti state from Wednesday adjusted their pump to prices ranging between N150 per litre to N165 per litre, above the supposed official maximum price of…
Dangote Refinery currently under construction would save Nigeria $12 billion annual import substitution, create 4,000 direct jobs and crash prices of petroleum products. Mr Babajide Soyode, the Technical Consultant to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said the project would add value to the economy as it would also create 145,000 indirect jobs. He said that the refinery…
Nigeria’s lower legislative chamber’s (House of Representatives) Committee on Oil and Gas on Thursday gave 10 indigenous oil companies in the country two weeks to remit 250 million dollars oil royalty to Federal Government’s coffers. Jerigbe Agom, the Chairman of the committee, gave the ultimatum at the ongoing sitting over unremitted funds in the industry….
