• NNPC discharges 320m litres of petrol• Govt may adjust fuel price next month• Presidency dissolves task force on power sector reform“Hopefully by tomorrow (today) and Thursday, the fuel queues in Abuja should be over. Hopefully, the same thing will happen in Lagos, and thereafter by the weekend, we should see Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Port Harcourt and Warri get off the queue list.”With these words yesterday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, reassured the nation that the lingering fuel scarcity would be a forgotten hardship by the end of the week.An
indication that the minister’s promise may come to pass was that a stock of 320 million litres of petrol wasbeing distributed across the country yesterday.Meanwhile, the Federal Government has dissolved the presidential task force set up by the Goodluck Jonathanadministration to drive the implementation of the reform in the nation’s electricity sector. But the reasons for this move were not disclosed.Kachikwu said government may reviewthe price of petrol upward next month (May) if the prices of crude oil continued to push up. The minister
, who spoke in Abuja when he paid a scheduled working visit to the Petroleum Products Pricing RegulatoryAgency (PPPRA), clarified that government had not re-introduced subsidy.He explained that what had been saved up in the first three months of price modulation in a dedicated account in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would be used to offset the gap in the price for April.His words: “Government is funding theprice gap we have in April with what has been saved in the last few monthsof over-recovery. But by May, the prices may be reviewed to march the current trend in the pricing.”
COMMENTARY
The oil that flows in my community is what u r telling me to wait for tankers from Europe?
Imagine having an orange orchard in your backyard, with about seven thousand orange trees. And u need the juice daily to drink and also to sell but a group of people comes in and starts carting away your fruits to foreign lands while messing up your orchard.
Whenever u need to drink or sell orange juices u would need to wait for ships from those far away lands while u can fruit the oranges right in your fruit-garden, drink as much as u would, sell the rest and be rich.
Then a son of the orchardist becomes tired of the ironies begins to speak against the imposed hardships and so...
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The owner of the orchard are Biafrans, the oranges are the oil and brains of Biafra, the conspirators are Britain and Nigeria including some Ibos, the messed ilup orchard is the state of East (Biafra), the orchardist's son is Nazi Nnamdi KANU. The decision u make as an Easterner; to be plundered OR be free to develop your orchard and enjoy the fruits is yours. #EzeSayz
