Zimbabwe on Tuesday announced a fresh increase in fuel prices, months after a price hike triggered nationwide protests and a brutal security crackdown as the country's economy woes deepen further.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has no plan to review pump prices of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol.

A Fresh increase in the pump price of petrol is among the contents of a bill that has been approved by the Senate Committee on Works. It was presented yesterday for enactment by the upper chamber.

The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Review of Petroleum Pump Price yesterday embarked on a fact-finding mission to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to acquaint itself with the real situation of fuel in the country.

Mr Victor Shidok, the Acting Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), on Monday in Abuja said there was no plan to increase the price of petrol.

It is curious that state officials are speaking in tongues again about the old bogey called “fuel price hike” and the devourer known as “fuel subsidy.” The spin-doctors are on the match again and members of the public....

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has warned the Federal Government against any plan to increase the pump price of fuel.It urged the government to improve people’s living conditions.

Against the background of arguably the worst economic hardship in Nigeria ever, evident in high cost of living and unprecedented human suffering in the country, insinuations of another increase ...

So far, policies have been put in place by government to address the crucial sectors of the economy, such as power, oil and others with no much success.

But the State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose in a state-wide broadcast appealed to workers to suspend the strike because the state cannot afford their demands at this moment.

President of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, Chief Bintan Famutimi has urged the Federal Government to totally deregulate the pump price of oil if it actually wants to end fuel shortage in the country.

The management of University of Abuja (UniAbuja) says it may enforce the ``no work no pay’’ directive on unions that joined Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) strike over recent increase in fuel price.