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Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti The All Progressives Congress Governorship Candidate in Ekiti, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Monday, distributed petrol to commercial motorcycle riders in Ado-Ekiti. The supply of free fuel took place at Mobil Petrol Station along Ikere Road in Ajilosun Area of Ado Ekiti...

What difference can an ounce make on an airplane? If you are United Airlines, with 4,500 flights a day, an ounce can add up. The Chicago-based carrier said it recently began printing its inflight magazine, Hemisphere, on lighter paper, cutting 1 ounce from each magazine. It now weighs 6.85...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) bears the cost of fuel subsidy and not the federal government. NAN reports that the vice-president clarified this on Monday while answering questions from journalists after visiting the Oando and Total depot in...

The Federal Government is proposing to spend a total of N158m for the maintenance and fuelling of generators at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (FMPWH), the Punch reports. According to the budget proposal for the ministry in the 2018 Appropriation Bill which is currently...

Acquiring a car is serious investment and definitely we want our cars to keep running for as long as possible. Sometimes, our own little actions are our car's worst enemies. Which of the following are you guilty of? :) 1. Revving The Engine Before It Is Warm Allowing your car to sit for...

Fuel attendants are quite notorious for the way they cheat unsuspecting customers out of their hard earned money. The tricks they use range from faulty pumps to fake and adulterated fuel, false hanging of the nozzles and many more. These tricks are readily not noticeable, but ensuring that you...

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, has confirm the recent announcement of a removal in fuel subsidy. Kachiku said that the decision was informed by the outcome of a stakeholders meeting held with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo The minister said that the government ‘expect that...

A former Minister of Petroleum, Prof Tam David-West has denied reports that he said the Buhari government would crash the price of petroleum to N40 if elected. The former minister, who spoke to Daily Sun on the phone, said at no time did he make such a comment and that he must have been...

The scarcity of petrol got worse in many parts of the country from Monday despite assurances by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that the situation would improve. Lagos state was virtually grounded on Monday as only few vehicles moved about, with many passengers stranded at bus...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with the leaders of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the end of the meeting, the...

Major oil marketers have said the federal government is yet to communicate the new pump price of petrol to its members. The federal government had on Tuesday announced a new N86.50k per litre pump price of petrol for oil marketers and N86/litre price for NNPC retail stations. But oil...

The federal government has officially scrapped paying subsidy to oil marketers for the importation of premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol and household kerosene, DailyTrust reports. An analysis of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) revised pricing template...

Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) on Monday says that petrol would soon be available in filling stations across the country considering improvement on loading of petroleum at the depots in Lagos. He observed that Nigerians would...

A dangote truck driver and his boys were spotted on Benin expressway last Sunday cooking with stove on the truck fuel tank.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a dilemma over what to do about the perennial energy crisis manifesting in long fuel queues across the country. The confusion is coming just as the petroleum marketers are expecting the federal government to pay them their outstanding claims in respect...

Price of some food items like chilli pepper, tomato and onion has soared by over 100 per cent in markets in Lagos a week to the Christmas celebration. A survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday showed that a basket of chilli pepper (rodo) is now N25, 000 against N12,000 it sold...

Federal government has assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity in the country will be over in a matter of days, vowing that the situation will not happen again. ”We can confidently announce here today that the scarcity will end in a few days. Subsidy payment till the end of the year...

Some independent petroleum marketers in Umuahia are selling petrol for between N170 and N200 per litre even as the seeming scarcity of the commodity lingers on. However, at the black market located at strategic points in the Abia state capital, the commodity sells for N300 per litre. A...

Facts have emerged that Nigerian Communications Commission have been on the neck on all the telecom operators in Nigeria to deactivate unregistered sims in the country, with only MTN disregarding such notice and instruction. Here are the 5 strong reasons MTN must comply with government...