President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday directed the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to pay with immediate effect, all outstanding monies owed to oil marketers so as to end the current fuel scarcity that has crippled the nation and caused untold hardship to millions of people.

This was just as the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (downstream) yesterday summoned top management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) among others, to appear before it tomorrow by 2pm prompt.

The president, who restated his commitment to Nigerians, said the public should not bear the burden of needless bureaucracy, as was presently the case. He stressed that Nigerians don’t need excuses but solution, which must be provided.

The summons by the Senate Committee was issued against the backdrop of the absence of the agencies to defend their 2015 budgets before the committee.

Committee Chairman, Senator Magnus Abe and his Deputy, Mohammed Goje, said their appearance would have enabled the agencies to explain to Nigerians the cause of the present fuel scarcity and measures put in place to address it.

Infuriated by the absence of the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Joseph Dawha, and other officials at the budget defence session, Abe openly directed the committee Clerk, Mr. Anthony Ikem, to immediately write to the NNPC and other affected agencies to explain why “the corporation did not even have the decency to inform the committee of its planned absence at the budget defence session” either through a letter or a phone call.

“We invited NNPC to this session since last week. The corporation did not even have the decency to inform this committee ahead of its absence today; a very bad practice we thought it had ended with, since last year.



It’ll end before weekend –NNPC

From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday, said the current biting fuel situation in the country will end before the end of the week.

The NNPC Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, Aisha Abdulrahman, who gave the assurance in Abuja, said all queues at filling stations across the country would disappear before the end of this week.

Speaking when the Supervising Minister of Information, Chief Edem Duke, led a team of reporters on an on-the-spot assessment of the situation in the filling stations, Abdulrahman said the situation had been addressed, adding that the NNPC currently had adequate stock that could last between 20 and 30 days.

She urged filling stations to complement the NNPC retail outlets by selling petrol for 24 hours to clear the fuel queues across the country.

Abdulrahman discouraged speculation, panic buying and hoarding of fuel, saying the NNPC had flooded the country with petroleum products.

On his part, Duke took a swipe at the opposition political party, denying that there was fuel scarcity.

He said all the depots across the country were wet with fuel, but that the queues in the filling stations were due to speculation and panic buying.

He lambasted the opposition for cashing in on the fuel situation to score cheap political point, even as he assured that the Jonathan’s administration would remain responsive to the welfare and economic well being of the citizenry.

“A good government cannot inflict scarcity on its people. It cannot bite its nose to spite its face, especially at a time when there is political tension.

“There is no government worth its onions that will say, rather than focus on strategies to win election, ‘let us deprive the citizenry of adequate supply of petroleum products’.

“So, when people are sitting in Dubai and issuing statements that are unfounded, I think we, as the conscience of the nation, should know better,” Duke said.

Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=107415

I thought they said it's the opposition party that's behind fuel scarcity? While Nigerians have being suffering to buy fuel even @100 Naira, our clueless president has been dancing Shoki all weekend in Lagos.

FTC anyway First blessing coming to me today, like if you believe

Ok

APC amount like this

It had better cos I gat plans for d weekend

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so it could actually have been averted by paying the people and the money is there? What a shame.

We'll endure d suffering till MAY 29.Thank u mr clueless one 4 the parting gift.NG won't mourn again

This man self dey tire person.so he knows the cause of the scarcity and his complaining that it is the handiwork of the opposition. God will save us

If he like make he end if he like make he nor end all I know is come March 28 we dispensing your nyanshes out of Aso Rock.


Sai Buhari

#Change

#We Are Ready.

why d sudden change? before you no send but now you dey show interest.

GEJ desperate to win election.

And when it ends next week, when should we be expecting another scarcity cos NNPC and NEPA are the same...

Don't worry all those missing oil money that sublimed to the atmosphere without any trace, your Kirikiri will be fully air conditioned...

#Change

Inept Jonathan must go!!!!!!


All the monies you've spent importing our own petroleum products in your six years would have built a functioning refining, even if just one

but your stupidity and corrupt filled soul didn't let you

Change is here!!!

But it was said that APC is Responsible for the fuel scarcity.














If this Is d Fresh air he promise Nigeria need a CHANGE!

Where are those SaTANoids What will they say about their clueless boss? Failed administration

#IHaveDecided
#NeverAgain

Not just d weekend,
#give us refinary. Get free manual 4 worm-like crawling movement in the body and joint pains. http://www.doublegandm.com/download.html

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Let's wait and see, weekend is around the corner

timilehing:
Where are those SaTANoids What will they say about their clueless boss? Failed administration

#IHaveDecided
#NeverAgain

wait till March 28th

Even the 3 refineries in Nigeria was built by GMB.... i don't know what this Odebong presidenc has done...

This is the kind of govt we want,a govt that can quickly meet the need of the masses.

Carry on... Till 2019 -GEJ

We hope so.

honestivo:
This is the kind of govt we want,a govt that can quickly meet the need of the masses.

Carry on... Till 2019 -GEJ

You're not even ashamed to say this rubbish in public... You produce your own oil and still buy it... rubbish!!!! # Change

Why allow it to start first if you knew you would back down and meet the demand of the marketers?

The oil marketers have won every fight against this government since January 2012 and shall continue to do so at the detriment of long-suffering Nigerians cos this government is not pro active. They respond only when collateral damage and bad press had been visited on them.

hmmmmn..... Ppl say I like analysis.. yes,
permit me to dash you another one, over
6billion naira was paid as take home for the
approximately 600 delegates at the National
confab last year, that is excluding their
feeding, security, accommodation and other
logistics, here is my take.. let us assume a
thousand youths were employed at the take
of 50,000 naira per month, if 6 billion naira
was set aside for them, that money would
have been enough to pay their salaries for
120months which equals 10 solid years..
whats d result of the confab??... Am ashamed
of its representatives, dy could av done better
by making it a service to humanity.. but d
govt of d day is renowned for waste and
irrelevances.

Okay

not too good.

I pray so

That is after you might have exploit the masses and add more wealth to the ones you have before. If you make God vex, na all of you petrol go burn to death.

Fp again... Meaning i would pass my micro economics test and IBT scolarship exam o... On the other hand...








GEJ TILL 2019

Ok oooo