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.

LAK Jimoh     Shola Odetundun     Amosa     Babajide Ajayi     Ayekale     Doyin Agbamu     ASKOMP     Hussein Oloyede     Saad Belgore     Elesie Of Esie     Yusuf Abubakar     Funmilayo Oniwa     Henry Olaosebikan     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Mufutau Olatinwo     Yakub Ali-Agan     Segun Abifarin     Kehinde Baale     Ijagbo     Bamidele Adegoke     Sadiq Buhari     Pategi     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Balogun-Ojomu     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Segun Ogunsola     Otuka     Shao     Risikat Lawal     Shoprite     Timothy Akangbe     Kwara 2019     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Bio Ibrahim     Valsolar Consultoria     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     FOMWAN     Niyi Ogundiran     Ganmo     Agboola Babatunde     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ojuekun Sarumi     IESA     Lotus Bank     MATTA Girls Foundation     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Kwara Apc     Aminat Ahmed     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Emir Of Ilorin     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Abubakar Ndakene     Twitter     Lithium Deposit     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Allocation     Issa Baba     KWASAA     Bashir Badawi     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Olabode George Towoju     Sabitiyu Grillo     National Democratic Congress    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Amusa Bello     Saheed Alakoso     Bola Shagaya     Emmanuel Bello     National Party Of Nigeria     Kale Kawu     March 28     Ibrahim Mohammed     Rafiu Olasile     Danladi     John Dara     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Saheed Akinwumi     Amoyo     KWACOBPA     Alaiye     Durbar     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Kumbi Titilope     Aisha Gobir     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Micheal Imoudu     Wale Oladepo     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Abiodun Oyedepo     Hussein Oloyede     Doyin Agbamu     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Ilorin     Ayo Adeyemi     Awili Pedro     NULGE     Mustapha Olanipekun     Rex Olawoye     Quareeb Islamic Association     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ogidi-Oloje     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Alabe     Kwara Metro Park     Sobi FM     Okala Baba     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Adebara     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Fola Consultant     Yusuf Lawal     Gbenga Olawepo     EFCC     Iqra Books     Kwara State Polytechnic     Bashirat Bola Bello     CUTI     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Kola Olota     Abraham Ojo     Laboratory-to-Product     John Mayokun Dada     Orisa Bridge     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Dagbalodo     Kola Bukoye     Forgo Battery     Bukola Ajikobi     Rashidi Yekini     Simeon Ajibola     2017 Budget     Moshood Bakare     KWAFFA     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Owu Fall     ASKOMP     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Binta Sulyman     Bibire Ajape