•Protesters Several protesters yesterday took to the streets in Katsina State, waving the Russian flag and tree leaves. They were spotted chatting “APC hunger. We are not in support” in their local language. The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the ruling party in Nigeria. The protesters mostly young people and children kick-started the prot...
•Fuel queue Long queues are snaking back at petrol stations across Africa’s biggest economy, raising fresh concerns about shortages as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) struggles with a staggering $6 billion petrol payment backlog. NNPC owes around $6 billion to international traders for imported petrol as traders said the st...
•Fuel queue Petrol queues resurfaced at filling stations across the nation’s capital, Abuja, and the surrounding states as several outlets ran out of stock despite the high pump price of N680 per litre. Checks around the city showed chaotic scenes across the few stations operated by major marketers dispensing to motorists in the city centre [&...
Long queues built up in filling stations across Lagos State today, creating fears of impending fuel scarcity. Our correspondent, who went around the city, gathered that the queues in some of the filling stations affected the free flow of traffic, reports The PUNCH. At the AP filling station in Alapere, commuters were held in traffic […]
•Fuel queue in Lagos Black market racketeers are currently taking advantage of the few day’s strike actions by tanker drivers, as the price of Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol skyrocketed, hitting ₦1000 per litre in some parts of Lagos States. Our patrol team today observed that most filling stations in Lagos State, Ogun [&hellip...
There are troubling signs from many parts of the country that the cash crunch that grounded the economy at the start of this year is making a comeback as customers are finding it hard to get cash from banks. This has forced POS operators to also limit the amount each customer can withdraw at a […]

