{"id":29645,"date":"2024-04-30T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:02:09","slug":"reps-summon-lokpobiri-ekpo-kyari-over-lingering-petrol-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/30\/reps-summon-lokpobiri-ekpo-kyari-over-lingering-petrol-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Summon Lokpobiri, Ekpo, Kyari Over Lingering Petrol Scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.25pt;\">The House of Representatives took action on Tuesday by passing a resolution to request the presence of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, and the Minister for the Gas Sector, Ekperikpe Ekpo, to address the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The green chamber has asked the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyare\u00a0to provide insights on the nation\u2019s petrol shortages.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was made following a motion of urgent national importance presented by a House member, Umar Ajilo, who expressed concerns about the persistent queues at petrol stations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The House anticipates that the ministers and the NNPCL CEO will give further details on the root cause of the scarcity and the strategies in place to resolve it.<\/p>\n<p>A specific date for this engagement has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports indicate a resurgence of queues in the country, extending into the new week, with motorists facing challenges as they purchase petrol at inflated prices of up to \u20a6800 per litre, while black market vendors are selling for as high as \u20a61,500 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives took action on Tuesday by passing a resolution to request the presence of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, and the Minister for the Gas Sector, Ekperikpe Ekpo, to address the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country. The green chamber has asked the Group Chief Executive Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59,334],"class_list":["post-29645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured","tag-nass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29650,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}