The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday residents of Abia, Kebbi and Kwara States paid the highest price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also...
The Nigerian government on Tuesday morning announced a reduction in the pump price of premium motor spirit, also known as petrol, from N168 to N162.44 per...
The Nigerian government deregulated the downstream petroleum sector with effect from March 19, 2020. The key argument was that the fuel subsidy regime which gulps billions...
The President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Chinedu Okoronkwo, said on Friday some filling stations in Lagos refused to sell petrol because...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday described the increase in the pump price of petrol to N170 per litre as wicked and unbearable. The party in...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Friday it would sell the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) at N153.17 per litre for oil marketers using its...
Intolerance due to inherent and acquired diversities among citizens is expected of a country like Nigerians. It is believed that football, to some extent, unites Nigerians...
A Federal Government delegation is set to meet with the organised private labour and civil society groups in a bid to avert the planned nationwide over...
In trying to justify Buhari’s latest callous hike in the price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining...
About 30% of petrol product meant for local consumption is smuggled out of Nigeria on a daily basis to neighbouring countries, where fuel subsidy is not...
A member of the House of Representatives, Teejay Yusuf has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of compounding the ‘woes’ of Nigerians with the recent hike...
A protest is rocking Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, over the federal government’s decision to increase electricity tariffs and fuel pump price. The ongoing protest...
The price of fuel has again been increased to N151.56 per litre by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary...
The pump price of gasoline should be about N155 per litre, the Chairman of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, Adetunji Oyebanji said on Tuesday....
Reacting to the observed silence from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), oil marketers have gone ahead to set new pump prices (between N148 and...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has condemned the increase in the prices of petroleum products, especially premium motor spirit also known as petrol. The...
Disaster was averted in the early hours of Saturday as a tanker loaded with 46,000 litres of petrol caught fire at the Secretariat Bus Stop in...
The quality of fuel imported into Nigeria is so dirty that it cannot be sold in countries with “higher and better-implemented standards,” a report has claimed....
Nigeria’s spending on petrol in the thirteen-month period between February 2019 and February 2020 came to N2.5 trillion out of the total N2.6 trillion expended by...
Statistics released on Sunday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) reflects that it sold around 21.51 billion litres of petrol estimated at N2.64 trillion, indicating...
Indications emerged on Thursday that the new petrol price of N125 per litre announced on Wednesday might be reconsidered in less than two weeks. The Petroleum...
The latest report from Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has revealed that a total of 19.18 billion litres of petroleum products was imported into the...
The Nigerian Government on Friday set year 2023 as the stop date for the importation of petrol into the country, shifting from the earlier set date...
The money spent by the Federal Government in subsidising petrol is anticipated to gulp a whopping N750.81 billion in 2020, the latest data from the Petroleum...
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, has explained why Customs banned fuel supply to filling stations close to the land borders. He told the House of...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has revealed that the importation of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, into Nigeria, through its Direct Sale Direct...
Nigeria’s daily petrol consumption has jumped 56 million litres in 2019 from 54 million in 2018, the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has said. The...
Nigerians who bought petrol across the country paid over N180 billion under the belief that it would be sold at equal prices to Nigerians nationwide in...
The Federal Government is aiming at achieving a 40 percent energy switch from the consumption of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), Dual Purpose Kerosene (kerosene) and Automotive...
The rate of drug abuse in Adamawa and other states around the country is on the increase as addicts increasing resort to use of embalming oil,...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Department of Petroleum Resources might be heading for a showdown over the actual litres of refined petrol the nation...
Despite the flooding of the Nigerian market with petrol by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which has led to the sale of the product at...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) says it is impossible to continue the sale of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) at N145. Speaking yesterday in...
Expectations that private and modular refineries would help Nigeria achieve petrol self-sufficiency by 2019 may have been dashed. This is because all the operating licences the...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has commenced the direct supply of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, to independent oil marketers in order to effectively...
The cost of petrol in the pricing template that is currently being reviewed will be determined by the rate of foreign exchange, oil marketers have said....
The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, is mainly because of its hoarding and diversion by oil marketers who are pushing for an...
Long queues by motorists yesterday returned in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, even as families go for last minute shopping, business and personal transactions...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Sunday announced that its continued strategic intervention towards the efficient supply and distribution of petroleum products had triggered a fall...
Even after it was seemingly browbeaten into submission the first time, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Federal Government against any increase in the...
Nigerians may be out for another cycle of fuel scarcity as the shortage of dollars has started having its toll on fuel importation by the Nigerian...
The agreement reached by the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over increase in the pump price of petrol may have gone the way...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, on Sunday, alerted residents of Borno State on the circulation of kerosene mixed with petrol in the state....
Fiery preacher and General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has accused the Federal Government of failing to consult widely before increasing the...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria at the weekend signed a memorandum of understanding {MoU} with Star Synergy Petroleum Services Limited to expand its mode...
Leaders of the Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, are scheduled to hold a crucial meeting today, Sunday in Abuja to review...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) has made arrangement to flood the market with enough supply of premium motor spirit, Ripples has learnt. Giving this hint...
The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, declared that it will begin an indefinite strike from Wednesday. Also, the National President...
The new price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, received the endorsement of the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, with the Senators demanding the...
The planned nationwide strike action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has run into trouble, as a faction of the labour union led by Comrade Joe...
