Tag: Fuel Hike
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Presidency defends fuel hike: ‘How many Nigerians have cars, generators?’
The Nigerian presidency has continued to justify the rise in petrol price, that moved from N145 to N161 and may even go higher, going by the hints in President Buhari’s October 1 speech. Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on media, Malam Garba Shehu told Channels TV Politics today that it is unfair for poor…
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Fuel hike: NANS dissociates from planned protest in southwest
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has dissociated itself from the planned protest by the alleged SouthWest Zone D chapter of the association over the recent hike in fuel pump price and electricity tariff. Mr Azeez Adeyemi, the National Public Relations Officer of NANS, disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday. According…
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Aggrieved Nigerians protest in Osogbo over electricity tariff, fuel hike
Dissatisfied members of the Coalition for Civil Societies in Osun State Friday morning protested against the hike in electricity tariff and petrol price. The activists took off from Freedom Park, Osogbo around 8:30 am. The protesters displayed placards showing their anger over the increase in electricity tariff and petrol price. The protesters lamented that “approval…
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You are very insensitive to our plights, Nigerians blast Buhari over fresh fuel, electricity hikes
Nigerians are not taking the latest fuel and electricity hike by the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government easy. Since the fuel and electricity hikes became public knowledge, Nigerians have taken to their social media platforms to bash President Muhammadu Buhari for being ‘insensitive’ to their plights. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN)…
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Don’t over burden Nigerians with another fuel price hike, PDP warns FG
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday warned the Federal Government not to increase prices of petroleum petroleum products above the current N145 per litre. The party, in a statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, alleged its investigations had shown that the federal government has been lying…