LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 22 people have been killed and more than 1,200 arrested in violence that erupted during protests this week in Angola sparked by the government’s decision to raise the price of fuel, the president’s office said on Wednesday. Joao Lourenco’s office released the death toll in an official statement and said…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has reduced its premium motor spirit price, DAILY POST reports. DAILY POST correspondent observed on Saturday that the petrol price at NNPCL filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been reviewed downwards to N935 per litre from N950. Some motorists in Abuja confirmed the…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has announced a reduction in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, to N860 per litre. This decision comes amid an intensifying price war among major marketers and independent petroleum dealers, as well as fluctuations in global crude oil prices….
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi described the recent hike in the price of petrol products as “unfortunate and insensitive”. Obi made this known in a statement he titled “Reversing the Sudden Fuel Price Increase”, on his X.com account, on Saturday. PUNCH Online…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prices of petroleum products will go down significantly beginning this Sunday, January 1, 2023, the Institute for Energy Security (IES) has predicted. This follows an improvement in the value of the Ghana cedi to the dollar during the last two weeks and a slight reduction in the price of crude oil on…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gasoline prices in the US just saw the biggest single-day drop in more than a decade. Average US pump prices fell by 3.1 cents to $4.721 a gallon overnight, marking the largest daily drop since December 2008, according to auto club AAA. Prices at the pump have been falling for the past…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang has said that plans were on the way to sell petrol less than N100 per litre. Senator Enang said as soon as local refineries begin operation, the price of petroleum products would be forced to crash. He…