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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to end the nation’s reliance on imported petroleum products. The oil workers promised to give the President the necessary support to…
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The Nigerian National Petleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said $2.2 billion (N673.2 billion) had been saved from refining over 40 billion litres of crude oil abroad through the nation’s Direct Sale and Direct Purchase (DSDP) scheme. …
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The Weights and Measures Department, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, on Thursday sealed eight fuel stations in Enugu State for inaccurate pump metering and under-dispensing of petroleum products. The eight filling…
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has turned to French data firm Kpler to help it ferret out smugglers from the thousands of ships plying Nigerian waters. The United Nations Security Council estimates that Nigeria lost $2.8…
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Worried by the growing incidents of petroleum products smuggling across the nation’s border towns, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have agreed to…
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The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru has said that to sustain the present seamless supply of petrol across the country, the NNPC was adding additional 2 billion litres of…
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not in a position to dictate to Nigeria to remove subsidy on imported Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) fuel, Chairman House of Representatives on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) Joseph Akinlaja (PDP,…
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The biblical postulation that “The dry bone shall rise again” seems suitable to the long-time moribund and wobbly state of the Port Harcourt Refinery company (PHRC) limited, Rivers State. The near–dead ‘’Mother’’ refinery has begun to…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it looks up to the completion of the Dangote Refinery to meet up with the increasing demand of petroleum products in the country. The corporation said with the expected population…
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Many Nigerians are yet to forget the horrible experience of 2012. A year Nigerians were given the most unpleasant gift at the eve of a new year by a government they overwhelmingly voted for less than ten months earlier and barely after…
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