Petrol Scarcity Lingers, NLC Bemoans Hardship, Rebukes FG Black market booms at N400 per litre in Lagos, Abuja Emmanuel Addeh and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Nationwide petrol scarcity worsened yesterday, with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) describing the prolonged product shortages as unacceptable and intolerable. The situation is continuing despite assurances by the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) that the country has enough fuel in stock to last over
a month. Since February this year when some operators imported adulterated petrol into the country, most parts of the country have not had stable supply of the product.
However, the problem has recently spread to Lagos where a litre of petrol currently sells for as much as N280 in some petrol stations and as much as N400 per litre on the black market.
Petrol queues are growing by the day across Nigeria. There is no part of the country where the price of this vital commodity has Continued on page 5
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L-R: Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe; Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State; former Governor of old Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo and Prof. Uche Azikiwe, wife of late Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first President, during the inauguration of Nnamdi Azikiwe Centre, Enugu, conceived and executed by the Ugwuanyi administration to immortalise the great Zik of Africa… yesterday.
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FG Pressures Oil-producing States to Account for Derivation Earnings Says N625bn disbursed to them in 2 years Delta State to Buhari: Okowa not among stealing governors Deji Elumoye in Abuja, Omon-Julius Onabu in Asaba and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt In a step apparently aimed at ensuring that governors of oil-producing states account for the 13 per cent derivation money disbursed to them, the Presidency yesterday revealed that the nine states in the club
received N625.43 billion from derivation, subsidy, and SURE-P refunds, from the Federation Account in the last two years. On the same day, the Delta State Government dissociated Governor Ifeanyi Okowa from the allegation by President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday that some governors Continued on page 5
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GLO FESTIVAL OF JOY… L-R: Mariam Imam of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission; DG, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe; House winner in Glo Festival of Joy Promo, Chukwu Reuben Okorie; Globacom’s Regional Manager, Kemi Kaka; and Banji Ojo of the Nigerian Communications Commission, at the presentation of a 3-bedroom apartment by Globacom to Okorie in Abuja ...yesterday.