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Petrol Queues Won’t Go Until We Do What Is Right – Osifo
Amid recent petrol scarcity in the country, the President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Festus Osifo, says periodical queues will not stop until the country do what is right.
Osifo, who doubles as the President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), said that the logistical challenges causing most of the petrol scarcities in the country must be tackled if the queues must disappear.
“Even if the queues go away in the next one week, we cannot guaranty that after one month it will not return because we are always going to have challenges in the logistics until we do what is right,” Osifo said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
“Either we fix the pipelines so that from those coastal areas we could feed the hinterland or we have those strategic reserves across the length and breadth of the country, maybe in the six geopolitical zones. Until we have that, we are in for it.
“So, the problem may be solved in two weeks but I cannot guarantee that in the next two or three months the challenges will not resurface again.”
‘We must have strategic reserve for PMS’
Queues resurfaced in most filling stations in the country early this week and oil marketers attributed it to lingering logistical challenges.
Osifo believes that one of the ways to solve the logistic challenges is to have strategic reserves for petrol.
“Where we move these products when we import them are in tank farms in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Calabar mainly.
“So, when you import these products you keep it there and from there you distribute to the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, so when there are issues down South you cannot move these products to the North.
“But should we have strategic reserves you keep these products there whenever you have challenge locally or internationally you could tap into your reserves and at the end you could be able to service the country.
“So that is one of the things we have proposed so that this logistic challenges will not be happening every day,” Osifo said.
He recommended that petrol depots across the country must be made to function again to address the challenges.
Using technology to solve crude oil theft
On oil theft which has remained an obstruction to the country’s economic growth, Osifo said that PENGASSAN has proposed several solutions to the government, including how to use technology to end oil theft.
“We can actually deploy technology to resolve this issue of crude oil theft,” he said.
The lawmaker representing Abia South, Senator Abaribe, said the arrest of separatist agitator Simon Ekpa in Finland is a welcome development.
The lawmaker stated that the arrest would deter purveyors of violence in the southeast region from continuing the mayhem being unleashed in the region.
According to him, Ekpa and his supporters are hiding behind the Biafra agitation to perpetrate crimes in the region.
In an interview with Channels TV, Abaribe said: “The arrest of Simon Ekpa is something that is very very welcome because this will tell all those people at home, who are purveyors of violence and instigated by Simon Ekpa that he actually said that he is just a content creator and not a serious person.
“We have always said that his activities in South East are totally wrong and not what Ndigbo stands for.
“The quest by the IPOB seeking non-violence referendum was turned by all these criminals. They are using IPOB to cause mayhem in the South-East.”
The Nigerian military said its troops of Operation Udo Ka have neutralised several suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and its security wing, the Eastern Security Network, ESN, in Imo State.
The Nigerian Army Headquarters stated this in a post on its official Facebook page on Monday.
The post said the operation was carried out along the Ekeututu–Ihiteunansa Road in Orsu Local Government Area of the state.
According to the post: “During the operation, the troops encountered suspected IPOB/ESN members. In the ensuing engagement, several of the suspected criminals were neutralized.
“Captured items included pump-action guns, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and IED-making materials, as well as charms.
“The Acting Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General OO Oluyede, commended the troops for their gallantry and urged them to sustain their efforts in eliminating criminal elements from their hideouts.
“He also reassured the peace-loving people of the South East to carry on with their daily activities without fear.”
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Few Months After Retirement From Winners Chapel, Bishop David Abioye Launches New Ministry, Gives Reasons
Bishop David Abioye has explained why he’s setting up his own ministry after leaving the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel.
This is coming just after retirement from office as Vice President of Living Faith Church worldwide.
The revered cleric unveiled plans for a new spiritual platform titled Hour of Revival. The maiden edition of the Hour of Revival took place on Saturday at the Velodrome of the National Stadium in Abuja, drawing a large crowd of participants from diverse backgrounds.
Addressing the attendees, Bishop Abioye emphasized that the initiative was a divine directive.
Bishop Abioye further clarified that the revival platform is not his personal project but an ordained mission by God.
He called on participants to embrace personal revival as a pathway to corporate revival, expressing his hope that everyone in attendance would be transformed into fire-catchers and fire-spreaders.
The Hour of Revival, which is open to both saved and unsaved individuals, serves as an interdenominational prayer platform to rekindle spiritual fire and inspire personal and collective renewal.
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