Nigerian Lawmakers Give National Petroleum Company, NNPC One Week To End Fuel Scarcity | Sahara Reporters

  • 📰 SaharaReporters
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 37 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 63%

South Africa News News

South Africa South Africa Latest News,South Africa South Africa Headlines

The lower chamber of the National Assembly has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and other regulatory agencies of advancing excuses to justify the fuel scarcity in the country. The House subsequently gave the NNPCL one week to end the lingering fuel scarcity. The lawmakers also directed the Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission to collaborate with the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Services (DSS) to ensure that fuel is sold at the regulated price and at all retail outlets across the country.

December 13, 2022The lower chamber of the National Assembly has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other regulatory agencies of advancing excuses to justify the fuel scarcity in the country.The lawmakers also directed the Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission to collaborate with the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Services to ensure that fuel is sold at the regulated price and at all retail outlets across the country.

Daily Trust quoted him as saying, “Firstly, when the scarcity reared its ugly head at the peak of the rainy season in October this year, NMDPRA said the fuel scarcity in Abuja and other northern states was caused by rainfall which submerged the greater part of Lokoja including the highway leading to Abuja, a development that grounded all vehicular movements along that route.

“Intelligence reports on current fuel scarcity gathered by our security agencies indicated that there is a deliberate plan by some oil marketers to derail the effort of the government in the distribution of fuel in the country by hoarding the petroleum products, thereby creating artificial scarcity all over the country."

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 9. in ZA
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

This sounds like an auto tune to me

Because they are victimized of this current fuel scarcity! Anyway that is good for them.

DSS gave them 2 days to end the scarcity. Corrupt NNPC. The moment they changed their name, they became a corrupt monsters, that are remitting zero dollar to the treasury.

Dey play just dey play

Dey play

All this people call senate are all jokes both with the fake NNPC 🙄

🤣

Remaining MBuhari to give nnpclimited ultimatum to end fuel scarcity 🙄 but Buhari is the Minister of petrol ooo ah!! So how is he going to five himself ultimatum.

A week to it's too much. We already in the festivities

Una Dey give una President One Week, Funny 🥁

That's after we suffer finished, my concerns now is that I'll not go to Jos with my car🥲

You people should continue to disgrace yourselves.

How about the DSS Order?

Nigeria is hunted by its failures. Where are the refineries and policies that will make what is produced at our backyard affordable? Imagine, cooking gas at our backyard is today, unaffordable. The colonial masters will be laughing at Nnamdi Azikiwe, Awolowo and Tafawa.

South Africa South Africa Latest News, South Africa South Africa Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

OML 130: Nigerian Petroleum Company, NNPC, TotalEnergies Accused Of Violating Local Content Law To Favour American Company, Inflate Rig Cost By $107,000 Daily | Sahara ReportersThe South-South Reawakening Group (SSRG) has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and its partner, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited of allegedly conniving to violate the Nigerian local content law in order to “load” NNPC an extra $107,500 daily cost in hiring an operational rig for the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 130 jointly operated by the two firms.
Source: SaharaReporters - 🏆 9. / 63 Read more »