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Fuel scarcity worsens, bites harder in FCT
Fuel scarcity worsens, bites harder in FCT
Residents and motorists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environ have continued to lament the hardship being experienced as scarcity of Premuim Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol worsened.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the filling stations on Friday reports that long queues of vehicles were seen at all the stations that have the petroleum product.
Those that have the product were dispensing at N195 per litre while the NNPC Limited Retail stations were dispensing N194 per litre.
A good number of the filling stations were seen without having the product.
In the City centre, NNPC Limited Mega station by Church Gate and NNPC Limited retail station at Zone 1, Wuse were seen with long queues of vehicles.
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Conoil and TotalEnergies filling stations, opposite NNPC Limited Towers also had long queues of vehicles.
The situation is also the worse along Nyanya-Keffi high way, as many filling stations did not have petroleum product,
while along Lugbe, Airport road, queues were seen at Danmana, NIPCO, Shafa and AA Rano filling stations.
Many motorist expressed dissatisfaction over the non availability of the product, adding that the situation was frustrating and demoralising as they normally stay over the next day to get fuel.
“I usually queue till 12 midnight and the next day to get fuel. If not, my taxi business will suffer a loss,” Mr Ismaila Jimoh said.
My Sadiq Yakubu said though he was on Coupon Queue, to be charged through his credit card but it had not been easy, calling on the Federal Government to hasten up with laudable decision to resolve it.
Mr Peter Okpe, Manager, TotalEnergies station who appealed to the government to find lasting solution to the crisis said though it always served motorists for 24 hours but its queues had become too long because enough product was not in circulation.
NAN reports that President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the constitution of a 14-man Steering Committee on Petroleum Products Supply and Distribution management to find lasting solution to disruptions in the supply and distribution of petroleum products.
Other terms of reference of the committee are to ensure national strategic stock management, visibility on the NNPC Limited refineries rehabilitation programme and ensure end-end tracking of petroleum products, especial PMS to ascertain daily national consumption and eliminate smuggling.
Fuel scarcity worsens, bites harder in FCT
Iran’s cabinet holds new emergency session after President’s death – State media
The Iranian cabinet has convened a second emergency meeting in less than 24 hours following the confirmation of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Local media reported on Monday that the Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber had already chaired a meeting on Sunday evening after the helicopter went missing with nine people on board over Iran’s north-west.
The report stated that Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian also died in the helicopter crash.
Raisi and Amirabdollahian were travelling back from a meeting with the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, when their aircraft disappeared from radar on Sunday afternoon.
According to protocol, with Raisi’s death, Mokhber should assume power, pending approval from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
New elections will then have to hold within 50 days.
Iran’s cabinet holds new emergency session after President’s death – State media
Helicopter crash claims Iran’s president, foreign minister, 7 others
The President Iran, Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country due to poor weather on Sunday, May 19.
The helicopter, transporting Iran’s President along with the country’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and seven other senior officials, met with disaster in the mountainous northwest region of Iran.
Iran was thrown into uncertainty on Sunday as search and rescue teams scoured a fog-shrouded mountain area after the helicopter went missing.
Fears grew for the 63-year-old ultraconservative after contact was lost with the aircraft. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had urged Iranians to “not worry” about the leadership of the Islamic republic, saying “there will be no disruption in the country’s work”.
“We hope that Almighty God will bring our dear president and his companions back in full health into the arms of the nation,” he said in a nationally televised address as Muslim faithful prayed for Raisi’s safe return.
More than 60 rescue teams using search dogs and drones were sent to the mountainous protected forest area of Dizmar near the town of Varzaghan. The crash site was later discovered and no survivor was found there.
The helicopter crashed weeks after Iran launched a drone-and-missile attack on Israel in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compound in Damascus.
Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Previously as the chief justice, he oversaw a period of intensified repression of dissent in a nation convulsed by youth-led protests against clerical rule.
Raisi was the second-most powerful person in the Islamic Republic’s political structure after its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. The Iranian Constitution mandates that, in the case of the president’s death, the first vice president assumes office with the approval of the Supreme Leader.
Helicopter crash claims Iran’s president, foreign minister, 7 others
We’ve reduced banditry by 70% – Radda
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State, said his administration has reduced banditry to about 70 per cent in the last one year.
According to the Governor, this was sequel to the robust synergy between the local security outfits and the conventional security agencies across the state.
Radda, who was on a working visit to Yola, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Saturday.
He said, ”It is high time to have state Police included in the fight against insecurity in the country.
“We have reduced the rate of banditry to about 60 to 70 per cent. What we are witnessing now is the crazy approach by the bandits going to hard-to-reach villages close to forests, burning houses and killing people.
“We have developed strategies to fight it”, he said.
Radda further explained that most of the developing countries have state Police that secure lives and properties.
He urged governments at all levels to prioritise education for the development of the sector in Nigeria.
Radda said, ”This will give opportunity to the less privileged, to access quality education at all levels.”
We’ve reduced banditry by 70% – Radda
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