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Petroleum dealers urge FG to address rising fuel prices
By Francesca Hangeior.
The Petroleum Dealers Association of Nigeria (PEDAN) has called on the federal government to take immediate action to address the escalating fuel prices that are affecting businesses and consumers across the country.
Ebonyi state chairman of the association, Mr. Silas Njaka, made the call in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital a day after the state government sealed off three filling stations in the state over alleged metre adjustments and other sharp practices.
Njaka blamed the persistent rise in the pump price of petroleum products in the country on the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government and called for immediate action by the president to address the challenges.
He said: “The petrol pump price at the depot on Thursday was one thousand one hundred and fifty-five naira. I remember that I bought a litre of fuel at nine hundred and ten naira before, but today it is one thousand one hundred and fifty-five naira at the depot and this is happening, because of the removal of fuel subsidy.”
The PEDAN chairman urged the federal government to explore means of ameliorating the sufferings of the people, by urgently addressing the challenges in the country’s oil industry.
He said: “Remember, in this country, there is nothing like fuel scarcity again. The Federal Government should rethink how to assist the poor masses because we are dying. Everything has gone out of control and it’s no longer favourable to anyone. The sellers and the buyers are crying and everybody is deeply involved.”
Njaka further opined that the persistent crisis in the oil sector, which was occasioned by the continued rise in fuel pump prices, can only be tackled by the Federal Government, through the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
He, however, condemned the incessant cases of adjustments of dispensers by some filling stations, adding that the act is “criminal and unpatriotic.”
“The act is a crime and no filling station is expected to do that. So if you see any filling station indulging in that let me know, and the agency instituted to monitor petrol stations, the Department for Petroleum Resources, DPR, will take appropriate actions to checkmate the owner of such filling station,” he added.
Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry.
The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian.
Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality, Ada Enechi.
“I am 10 per cent Nigerian and 90 per cent Irish,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington has hinted at retirement.
The 69-year-old thespian disclosed during a press tour of his latest movie ‘Gladiator II’ in Australia that ‘Black Panther 3’ is one of his last films before retirement.
He said he would be retiring after shooting ‘Black Panther 3’, ‘Othello 2’ and ‘King Lear.’
About 20 suspected criminals arrested for various crimes across Osun State, including three suspected highway armed robbers, were on Friday paraded by the state police command.
Presenting the suspects to journalists, the spokesperson for the police, Yemisi Opalola, said the armed robbery suspects, Olajide Kareem (28), Mike Emmanuel (33), and Godwin Emmanuel (23) were arrested along Osu/Ilesa road.
Opalola said the suspects, during their operations robbed many people of their jewelries, phones cash, and other valuables.
She added that during one of the robbery incidents, a bus driver was shot in the leg, while a female passenger was raped by one of the suspects.
Also paraded was Emmanuel Anthony, accused of using military uniforms to rob passengers along Ekiti road, where he forced a victim from Esa Oke, to transfer a sum of N3m to his account.
Anthony was also accused of robbing other people of their mobile phones valued at N1.25m.
Seven other suspects arrested for conspiracy, armed robbery and receipt of stolen vehicles, were also paraded.
Four northern states of Gombe, Bauchi, Benue and Plateau have been thrown into darkness, due to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
The states are among the franchise area of Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
According to the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He disclosed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” said Elijah.
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