Tag: Tankers
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Marketers warn of looming fuel scarcity, say hoodlums destroy 10 petroleum tankers
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has hinted of a looming petroleum scarcity in the country following attacks on fuel tankers and disruption of depots’s operations across the country by #EndSARS protesters. Chairman of IPMAN in Rivers State, Dr. Joseph Obele, who spoke in a live radio programme in Port Harcourt on Friday…
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8 died at petrol tankers accident in Kwara
No fewer than eight people lost their lives in multiple accidents involving six petrol tankers and a car at Oloru-Kanbi in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident occurred when the tankers, heading to the NNPC depot at Oke-Oyi in Ilorin had a head-on…
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Border closure: Buhari orders arrest of security operatives over illegal release of 295 tankers of smuggled fuel
President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned a security outfit to check illegal operations and activities of government officials and suspected smugglers at the country’s borders. The creation of the outfit, codenamed ‘Operation Swift Response’, followed discovery that some officials are neck deep in deals with smugglers to perpetrate illegalities. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and…
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We’ve delivered on our mandate, tankers no longer on Lagos roads – Opeifa
Mr Kayode Opeifa, the Executive Vice Chairman, Presidential Task Team on Apapa Restoration of Law and Order, says his team has delivered its mandate to bring sanity to Apapa axis of Lagos by ensuring easier access in and out of the area. Opeifa said this during a visit to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…