Tag Archives: Petroleum Industry Bill

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said local refining of crude is the only way to make fuel available and easily accessible to all Nigerians. He said every other measure to put an end to the recurring problem of fuel scarcity will only work temporarily. Dogara made this known, on Tuesday, when he received the executive ...

The factional National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Chinedu Okonkwo, has called for synergy between the National Assembly and the association to device a process that would make fuel available to Nigerians. This, he said, was possible if all the bottlenecks preventing marketers from accessing foreign exchange to import the refined product into the country ...

Knocks await the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday, next week, when the House of Representatives reconvenes. The Maikanti Baru-led agency will be pummelled for illegally subsidising the pump price of fuel at billions of naira.  Speaker Yakubu Dogara has reportedly been briefed already about the decisive session. “Definitely, the House would bring it up and I am sure ...