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Senate summons Ibe Kachikwu over fuel scarcity

The Senate has summoned the Minister of state for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before it today March 29th to explain reasons for the lingering fuel scarcity. ‎The Acting Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (downstream), Jibrin Barau, announced this after ...

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NNPC says Fuel Scarcity to End Soon

Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the fuel scarcity and queues in fuel stations will soon come to an end. The Corporation said this in a statement on Wednesday. Read statement below…

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NNPC Restructuring : Workers stop fuel supply, shut NNPC headquarters

The nationwide scarcity of petrol worsened on Wednesday as oil workers embarked on a full-scale industrial action, which led to the shutdown of the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Abuja as well product depots, mega filling stations and other critical facilities. The workers, under the aegis ...

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Buhari has unbundled NNPC into seven units

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been unbundled into seven independent operational units by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, who made this disclosure in Abuja on Tuesday, noted that five of the seven operational units would focus mainly on business, in line ...

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Pipeline Explosion Kills 110 In Ogun State

Sympathisers wept profusely in Arepo area of Ogun State yesterday as no fewer than 110 suspected petroleum pipeline vandals were roasted to death. The incident occurred along the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline. According to LEADERSHIP ,the vandals were scooping fuel when it ignited the fire, which raged for ...

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President Buhari dissolves board of NNPC

President Buhari has dissolved the board of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The directive to dissolve the board was conveyed in a letter signed by the Head of Civil Service, Danladi Kifasi dated today June 26th.

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Nigeria’s four refineries to begin operation next month – NNPC

The spokesperson of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr Ohi Alegbe says that Nigeria’s four refineries – two in Port Harcourt, one in Kaduna and the other one in Warri will resume production next month. �The refineries at Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna will resume next month after a ...

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Missing $20bn: You Can Suspend A Man But You Cannot Suspend The Truth- Emir Sanusi

Emir Muhammed Sanusi of Kano has again reiterated his stance that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) failed to remit billions of dollars to the federation account. Speaking through a piece he wrote for Financial Times, the Kano Emir stated that he can be suspended as Governor of the Central ...

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PWC Forensic audit of NNPC reveals $1.28bn in subsidy scam

PricewaterHouse Coopers PWC on the financial management of the NNPC has revealed that there were many cases of duplicated subsidy payment by the NNPC to many oil marketers between 2012 and 2013. According to the report, payment of subsidies for petrol (PMS) and kerosene (DPK) between January 2012 and July ...

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Gen Buhari interested in probing alleged missing $20bn NNPC money

President-elect Gen. Buhari has signified interest to probe the alleged missing $20 billion from the coffers of the NNPC. Speaking with APC members from Adamawa state at the APC National headquarters in Abuja on April 26th, Gen Buhari queried the dismissal of Former CBN governor now Emir of Kano Muhammad ...

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Another bomb blast in Kano this morning

A bomb blast occurred this morning at NNPC mega station along Maiduguri road in Kano state. See press statement from the police… Today, 28-07-14 at about 10:00am, another suicide bomb went off at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Mega Filling Station at Hotoro Quarter along Maiduguri Road, Kano. A suicide ...

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Comedian Okey Bakassi writes funny open letter to NNPC

Okey Bakassi

Dear NNPC, Please forgive me and other Nigerians for helping you look for your missing $20billion instead of minding our ‘own business’. We were misled by the following: 1. Sanusi; who said “your money” was missing when you, “the owner” has not said “your money” is missing. 2. APC; who ...

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See the reason why there is fuel scarcity

Contrary to claims by the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the fuel scarcity was caused by hoarding, fresh investigations reveal that the problem is a result of late release of import allocation to oil marketers, gap in importation and short-supply of petroleum products to filling stations. It was gathered that ...

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