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.

Ben Duntoye     Sa\'adu Salahu     Ojuekun Sarumi     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Bank Of Industry     Lola Ashiru     Onilorin Of Ilorin     International Vocational Centre     IF-K     Mustapha Akanbi     NYSC     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Revenue Court     Hassan Oyeleke     Ilorin South     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Oke-Kura     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Musa Yeketi     Shuaibu Yaman     Taofik Abdulkareem     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Kulende-UITH     Fatai Olodo     Kolade Solagberu     Afonja     Alagbado     Wahab Agbaje     Kumbi Titiloye     Ariyo     Ishaq Oloyede     Bayo Ajia     Mohammed Yisa     Bashir Adigun     Lai Gobir     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Alaiye     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Madawaki     LAK Jimoh     Alanamu     Kayode Ishola     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Crystal Corner Shops     Federal Allocation     Mohammed Halidu     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Ilota     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Olatomiwa Williams     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Press Release     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Orisa Bridge     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Seun Bolaji     Ilorin West     Aminat Ahmed     Sabi     Zainab Abass     Idris Amosa Saidu     Michael Ologundea     Rebecca Bake     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Taofeeq Olateju     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Radio Kwara     Yakubu Gobir     AGILE Programme     Ibraheem Abdullateef     SDP     Oba Abu     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Sodiya    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Emir Of Yashikira     IYA ALFA NLA     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Dunmade     Bukola Saraki     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Allocation     Kwha.gov.ng     ASKOMP     KWASSIP     Jamiu Oyawoye     Rueben Parejo     Kayode Yusuf     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     NFAI     Tsado Manman     Sodiya     Harafat E. Mukadam     Seun Bolaji     Sabi     Abatemi-Usman     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Buhari     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     REO CAKES     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Igosun     Rex Olawoye     Abdullahi Biffo     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Garba Idris Ajia     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Gbugbu International Market     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Charles Ibitoye     SWAN     Magaji Nda     Issa Manzuma     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Yahaya Muhammad     Rafiu Ajakaye     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Bibire Ajape     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     FERMA     Lai Gobir     Omoniyi Ayinla     Yoonus Lawal     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Akanji     Damilola Yusuf     Ebola     Crystal Corner Shops     Naira Redesign     Garba Dogo     Lola Olabayo     Bashir Adigun     CCT     JSSCE     Fatimat Saliu     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Isiaka Yusuf     Akanbi-Oke     Bilikisu Gambari     Aisha Buhari     Lawal Jimoh     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Kale Ayo     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Abubakar Baba     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Abdulrasheed Lafia