LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The price of premium motor spirit and automotive gas oil may increase as the Federal Ministry of Works and House of Representatives push for the implementation and remittances of a 5 percent road user charge to be factored into fuel and diesel prices. This was disclosed at an investigative hearing of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A tipper truck loaded with sharp sand has crushed three victims to death along the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, road in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, yesterday. According to eyewitness accounts, the truck was descending the sloppy road from the Total Roundabout-UNN Road when the driver allegedly experienced brake…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid heavy gridlock, motorists and commuters in Lagos lamented over the sudden scarcity of fuel, popularly called petrol. This has resulted in transport fares increase by commercial bus drivers — danfos and koropes — within the city. Consequently, fuel queues have resurfaced with most filling stations shut, as motorists struggle with the…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRNAGERS)- The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has lamented that the President Tinubu administration has done nothing to alleviate the nation’s petroleum problem, but instead made it worse. The student body stated that rather than increasing fuel availability, the subsidy removal has caused scarcity and immense suffering for Nigerians. DAILY POST…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is turning to gas as an alternative fuel after it scrapped a popular but costly subsidy on petrol that has seen pump prices rise sharply, angering motorists and businesses that use petrol to generate their own power. State-oil firm NNPC said late on Thursday it has partnered with NIPCO Gas to…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Petrol prices in Nigeria hit their highest level ever on Tuesday (July 18). That’s just weeks after President Bola Tinubu scrapped a fuel subsidy in a country where millions of households and businesses rely on petrol for power due to a patchy national grid. According to a circular seen by Reuters,…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sitting on top of a yellow jerry can of fuel, Jeannine waits for customers on a sidewalk in Benin’s economic capital Cotonou, but business is slow. The motorbikes and cars she normally supplies are no longer stopping to stock up on her cheap gasoline, which is smuggled in from neighbouring Nigeria. Since…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has said he paid N1,000 to purchase a litre of petrol, just as he lamented the scarcity of fuel and new naira. Oshiomhole said this when he featured on Channels Television’s election programme The 2023 Verdict on Sunday. “On one occasion, I ran out of…