Residents want NNPC retail outlets in Kwara border areas

Date: 2020-04-04

Residents of border communities in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara have urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to build  retail outlets to solve the problem of fuel scarcity in the area.

The residents said on Saturday that the retail outlets would put an end to indiscriminate hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, in the area.

Mr Audu Abdulrahman, the Chairman, National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in the area, told the NAN that a litre was sold for N300 despite the official reduction in the pump price of petrol by the Federal Government.

Abdulrahman, however, blamed the situation on border closure directive that restricted movement of petroleum products into border communities.

He observed that if the NNPC could set up a filling station in the area, it would ameliorate the suffering faced by the border communities.

“The decision has caused the cost of transportation to and from the area to triple.

“Federal government should please give us NNPC petrol stations in Baruten local government area of Kwara; we are buying fuel at N300 per litre now,” he cried.

Alhaji Umar Galadima, another resident, also said that building of filling stations in the area by major marketers would at least break the monopoly of the unpatriotic marketers in Baruten.

Galadima, a staff of the National Orientation Agency, added that the scarcity of fuel in the border areas had unleashed untold hardship on residents.

He told NAN that fuel was being sold for between N300 and N400, depending on the distance of the filling station, to the international border.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alikinla     CBT     April 11     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Oke-Kura     Sidikat Akaje     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Kola Adesina     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Idofin     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Kolawole Akande     Lucky Omoluwa     Salary     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Hausa     Kwara South     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Seni Saraki     Issa Manzuma     Bamidele Aluko     Chief Imam Of Offa     Umar Saro     Agbarere     Oniye     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Moronfoye     Quarry Royal Valley     Ajakaye     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Oyun     Moshood Mustapha     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Ileloke     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     HICA     Eghe Igbinehin     Oko Erin     Tunji Olawuyi     Dan Masanin     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Nigerian Army     Amuda Musbau     TETFUND     Post-utme     Yaman     Oko-Erin     Yusuf Mubarak     John Mayokun Dada     Owo Isowo     Smart School     Mohammed Lawal     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Ajayi Okasanmi     Salman Alada     Bolaji Nagode     Wahab Agbaje     Guber Aspirant     Kwara NIPR     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Orisun Igbomina     The Herald     Abdulwahab Ololele     Olatunji Bamgbola     Saheed Alakoso     Olawuyi     Post Utme     Roseline Oni Aremu     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Adaramaja     Galland Marcias     Sabi     Saadu Alanamu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kassim Babamale     Elekoyangan     Owode Market     Amada Jidda     Issa Manzuma     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Michael Nzekwe     Aisha Buhari     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Labour Party     Shao     Muhammed Danjuma     Muazam Nayaya     Sarah Alade     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Kamaldeen Gambari     Raliat AbdulRazaq     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Kunbi Titiloye     Moronfoye     KFA     Olokoba Sulyman     Cornelius Adebayo     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Kayode Zubair     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Tunde Akanbi     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Haliru Yahaya     Lateef Fagbemi     Oloyede     Toyin Falola     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Yetunde Balogun     A.E. Afolabi     Sam Onile     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Ekweremadu     Galadima     Riskat Opakunle     Bluenile Associates     Gobir     Lafiagi     Ajidagba     Bibire Ajape     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Fatimat Saliu     Mohammed Ibrahim     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Manzuma     Saka Keji     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Abubakar Suleiman     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Iyaloja-General     Ajikobi     Jimba Babatunde     Farouk Salim     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Share-Tsaragi     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Amuda Bembe     Durbar Festival     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Lola Ashiru     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Adedeji Onimago     Shagari     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga