CNG 40% Cheaper Than Petrol, 100 Stations Coming – NNPC
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The use of Compressed Natural Gas in automobiles is 40 per cent cheaper than using Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited announced on Thursday.
NNPC also announced that 100 CNG stations would be functional nationwide in 12 months, as it simultaneously inaugurated 11 CNG stations across various locations in Abuja and Lagos on Thursday.
Speaking at one of the locations in Abuja, the Managing Director, NNPC Retail Limited, Huub Stokman, said the stations represent a major step in extending the national oil firm’s CNG presence in Nigeria, marking an important moment in its efforts to diversify Nigeria’s energy mix.
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Don’t destroy traditional institutions, Bauchi APGA chieftain tells govs
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A former vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance party in the 2023 general election, Comrade Abdullahi Koli, has condemned the growing trend in parts of the North whereby threats of dethronement is now the order of the day.
Koli, who termed the recent threats against the region’s traditional institutions as misplaced priority, urged the sitting governors to focus on providing the dividends of democracy to the people.
According to him, the shift on focus by politicians to unseat traditional rulers
is totally against the will of the voters who hired the politicians to take the lead.
Koli, who was is a former union leader, told Arewa PUNCH in an exclusive interview on the emirship tussle in Kano, reforms of the constitution in Sokoto, and the recent query by the Katsina State Government to the Emir of Katsina, recalled that even the colonial masters had benefited from the wealth of wisdom of traditional institutions which explains the success of their mission to Africa.
Ex-Minister Counsels Greensprings On Diligence, Morality
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A former Minister of Aviation, Mr Osita Chidoka, has advised Greensprings School IB Diploma students to be wise, diligent, and fear God.
Speaking at the graduation of Greensprings IB Diploma students, Chidoka encouraged the 36 graduates to uphold these values, stressing that good character was fundamental for them, towards achieving sustainable success in their academic and professional journeys.
He said, “Use the “Chidoka Principles,” as follows, Uche (wisdom), Uchu (diligence), and Egwuchukwu (morality and fear of God) to guide your future endeavours.”
Don’t Lose Faith In Military Over Gwoza Bombings – DHQ
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The Defence Headquarters said, on Thursday, that Nigeria is in a state of war, given the deployment of troops across the different regions of the country.
While describing Saturday’s multiple suicide bombings in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State as an indication of an “ending cycle of terrorism,” the DHQ asked Nigerians not to lose trust in the security agencies.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday during the Strategic Communication Inter-Agency Policy Committee in Abuja, the Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba said there was no other way to describe the situation in which the country had found itself than to admit that it was in a state of war.