Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of
state for petroleum
resources, has joined
President Muhammadu
Buhari in apologising to
Nigerians for the continuous
fuel crisis in the country and
promised that it will
end within the next two
days.
Speaking during his tour of
petrol stations in Abuja
yesterday, Mr Kachikwu
emphasized that the
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has
increased supply of the
petrol products countrywide
and up to 300 truckloads of
fuel are provided to Abuja
daily.
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The minister said: “We have
enough coming in. Obviously
the two days of strike hit us
very badly but we are
flooding in, getting an
average of 300 trucks a day
into Abuja. It’s going to take
a bit of while for the queues
to finish but we are hoping
that between the next one-
two days we should have the
queues all disappear because
we are continuing to pump
in, while a lot of the stations
are open 24 hours a day.
I apologise to Nigerians for
all the pains. Nobody wants
to see people spend two
hours on the fuel
queue. Talks had begun with
the CBN to help major oil
marketers in Nigeria access
foreign exchange to import
petrol into the country. We
are doing everything we can.
NNPC is taking the whole
nation on its shoulders while
majors are really not
bringing in product.
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But we are working long
term solutions to majors to
now begin to go back to
importation lane and be able
to service their own outlets
rather than us servicing our
outlets, independents,
majors and servicing
everybody; its a lot of wear
and tear on our capabilities
as a status. Long term
obviously we have got to
systemically look at how do
you prepare this nation in
circumstances where there
are emergencies to be able
to respond. We are obviously
not getting that as well as
we should.”
It would be recalled that only
a day ago the Nigeria Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Workers (NUPENG), in the
person of its south-west
chairman, Tokunbo Korodo,
said the current fuel scarcity
in the country might
continue till the end of this
month and even get worse.
Currently, motorists all over
the country are facing
massive queues at filling
stations,
while pedestrians are
fighting the same problem
at public transport stops . The
situation has
been aggravated by
frequent power shortages
that were attributed by
federal government to gas
failure as well as sabotage
and vandalization of the
power infrastructure.
https://www.naij.com/762355-nigerias-crippling-fuel-crisis-will-end-two-days-kachikwu-promises.html

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power, fuel, next pls

must you lie?

It's a welcome development!

That's how they keep talking trash!

It berra!

You will never hear things like "have done" but always "will do

our naira exchange rate nko imagine, a few weeks ago i wanted to buy tecno l5 on jumia, then my brother borrowed N4k from my N16k(meant for the phone), then 4 days later when he returned the money tecno l5 has become N23k.. WTF?!