Against the latest round of fuel scarcity rocking many parts of the country, private oil marketers are calling for government intervention to enable them to access foreign exchange at a special rate for the importation of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol).
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NNPC HAS FLOODED EJIGBO DEPOT WITH FUEL – IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria says long queues at petrol stations in Lagos and Ogun states will soon disappear as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has flooded the Ejigbo depot with Premium Motor Spirit.
Continue reading »FUEL SCARCITY: MOTORISTS IN LAGOS LAUD DPR’S INTERVENTION
Motorists in Lagos on Thursday lauded the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for its intervention by compelling petrol dealers hoarding the product to dispense to motorists.
Continue reading »TRUCK CRUSHES 10 TO DEATH IN OGUN
No fewer than 10 persons were yesterday confirmed dead in a fatal accident involving a DAF truck and a Toyota Hiace bus at Olokuta village, along Abeokuta – Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State.
Continue reading »14 HURT AS CAR IS DRIVEN INTO CROWD IN AUSTRALIA (PICTURES)
A car ploughed into a crowd in Australia’s second-largest city on Thursday in what police said was a “deliberate act” that left more than a dozen people injured, some of them seriously.
Continue reading »LAGOS-IBADAN ROAD: FG CONSIDERS INCREASING SCOPE OF WORK TO N300BN
Members of the Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, embarked on a marathon meeting that saw them approving contracts totalling about N960bn.
Continue reading »MOTOR DEALERS LAMENT LOSS OF N2BN TO SEIZURE OF VEHICLES BY CUSTOMS
The Association of Motor Dealers of Nigeria (AMDON) Thursday said its members lost N2 billion as a result of the indiscriminate seizure of cars by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) across the country.
Continue reading »OYEYEMI LAUNCHES SECOND PHASE OF OPERATION COBRA, WARNS AGAINST ASSAULT OF MARSHALS
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has flagged off the second phase of Operation Cobra, with warning to motorists to avoid assaulting FRSC Marshals on duties or risk being commuted to prison. Oyeyemi stated this today while launching 8 additional patrol vehicles and equipment as part of efforts to strengthen the capacity of […]
Continue reading »TRAFFIC OFFENDERS TO PAY N100,000.00 FINE, SAYS FRSC
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, plans are underway to compel traffic offenders to pay one hundred thousand naira as penalty for a traffic offence.
Continue reading »HOUSE OF REPS CALLS FOR DISMANTLING OF MULTIPLE ROADBLOCKS
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, adopted a resolution calling for the removal of multiple security checkpoints on roads across the country to facilitate free flow of traffic.
Continue reading »FRSC DEPLOYS 500 PERSONNEL, 18 VEHICLES, OTHERS IN ENUGU
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has deployed over 500 personnel to man all critical road corridors in Enugu State for its special Yuletide patrol.
Continue reading »PREPARE FOR CHANGES IN TRANSPORT SECTOR, LASG TELLS NURTW
The Lagos State Government has advised the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to prepare for the coming changes in the state’s transportation sector.
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