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.

Binta Abubakar-Mora     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Toyin Sanusi     Tafidan Kaiama     Minister     AbdulRahman Saad     Doyin Awoyale     Ayegbeni     Abegunde Goke     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Jimoh Akani     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Olaiya Zuberu     Ado Ibrahim     Yusuf Arowosaye     Wahab Egbewole     Orisa Bridge     Babata     Computer Based Test     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Onilorin     PharmAccess Foundation     Kwara Consultative Forum     Revenue Court     Najim Yaasin     Code Of Conduct     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Musa Abdullahi     Kwara State Fire Service     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Sa\'adu Salau     ER-KANG Mining     Ajeigbe     Lanwa     Durbar     Ajikobi     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Imam Gambari     Usman Rifun     GGDSS Pakata     Bello Oyedepo     Cornelius Adebayo     Ike Ekweremadu     Gwanara     Bankole Omisore     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Unicontinental Construction Company     Adamu Attah     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Sardauna     Tosin Saraki     Aliyu Salihu     Erubu Oba Zubair     Yusuf Badmus     Gbenga Adebayo     IYA ALFA NLA     Gambari     Otuka     TVC Female National Debate     Moses Afolayan     Aliyu Adebayo     Olayinka Olaogun     Ita-Ore     Lateef Alagbonsi     Isiaq Khadeejah     Yaman     Maja     Tunde Kazeem     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Oke-Ogun     Olabode George Towoju     Ahmed Alhasssan     Bolaji Nagode     Benin Republic     Tayo Awodiji    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sabitiyu Grillo     Dogara     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Muyideen Ajani Bello     A.E. Afolabi     Peter Obi     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Pilgrims Board     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Shagari     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     AGM Professional Services     Isau     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Oyedepo     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Maigida Soludero Transit     Radio Kwara     Segun Ogunsola     Kazeem Gbolagade     Belgore     Ilofa     Sebastine Obasi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Adanla-Irese     Abubakar Abdulraheem     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Dan-Kazeem     JAMB     COVID     KWSUED     Aliyu Alhassan     Curfew     Sobi     Adama Isa     Raymond Olaitan     Elerin Of Adanla     Iyeru Grammar School     Okin Biscuit     Transition Implementation Committee     Abraham Ojo     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Dorcas Afeniforo     Elesie Of Esie     Sheikh Alimi     John Olajide Adedipe     Jani Ibrahim     Funke Adedoyin     Yusuf Abubakar     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Bello Oyedepo     CCEPE     Offa Metropolitan Club     GRA     Abdulkadir Orire     Kwara North     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Facebook     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     John Olobayo     Salman Alada     Ayegbeni     Amos Justus Sayo     Olayinka Are     Modibbo Kawu     Laduba     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Aliyu Sabi     Yoruba     Ayekale     Bayo Ajia