The Court of Appeal Sokoto Division on Monday set aside the judgment delivered by the Zamfara High Court, allowing the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field candidates in the 2019 Election. The appeal was filed by Sen. Kabiru Marafa, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) and 129 others through his Counsel, Mr Mike…

The National President of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Alhaji Sanusi Fari has debunked claims that he ordered his men to sell Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) at N140 per litre against the official price of N145 per litre. Fari made the disclosure yesterday, in Ilorin, adding that his members would ensure availability of…

Bothered by the risk tendencies in petroleum products movement across the country, oil marketers under the aegis of Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), have decided to minimise cases of accidents on road networks and promote efficient transportation of products. MOMAN insisted that movement of products from one point to another constituted a major…

Residents of Satellite Town, in Lagos, have raised an alarm over what they described as very deplorable situation in the area owing to infiltration of petroleum products tank farms, tankers and trailers. They also expressed shock over the indifference of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of State for Petroleum Resources, the Ministry of the…

The Lagos State Petroleum Marketers Safety Conference, holding today, presents an all-inclusive platform for stakeholders in the downstream sector to synergise with the regulators, government agencies, and public institutions to drive effective safety management practices in the industry. In this interview with Tayo Oredola, James Ashokeli, the chief organiser of the conference, highlights the major…

Failure on the part of industry regulators in Nigeria has relegated Nigeria to the background among the comity of nations, thus making it a destination for dirty fuels. Petroleum products that are not accepted in other parts of the globe including most African nations, have continued to flood the country’s product space, leaving Nigerians, the…

It is not known to this column how close Brigadier Sani Abacha was to Major General Muhammadu Buhari by December 1983. It was Abacha who announced at the end of a few minutes of martial music on new year’s eve that the government of President Shehu Shagari had been thrown into the dust bin of…

To boost fuel supply across the country, about 20 vessels laden with petroleum products are expected to berth in Apapa ports between now and March.     The vessels are among the 34 ships being expected at the Lagos Pilotage District of the Apapa port, and billed to start arriving from February 20 to March 24.…

The Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the lingering high cost of petroleum products as a huge setback for businesses and economic existence of the people and called on the Federal Government to take more drastic action to remedy what it termed “embarrassing situation.” Its Chairman, Jerry Nnubia, said yesterday…

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) 2015 Oil and Gas Industry Audit Report, showed that the country recorded a net loss of $723 million (N260 billion) from getting refined products through Offshore Processing Arrangement (OPA) in 2015. Besides, the agency said that sum of N317 billion which is the value of crude allocated for…

Twenty-two ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos from Dec. 22 to Dec. 30. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication, “Shipping Position’’ on Monday in Lagos. NPA said that the ships contained buck wheat, empty container, bulk…

Besides, despite the relatively low cost of fuel at some filling stations, which has reduced to about N140 per litre around the country, petrol still sell above the prescribed pump price of N145 in Cross River, Kaduna and Yobe states respectively.