Despite Tightening Gas Supply, Rising Prices, FG Says LPG Market Growing PPPRA: Domestic supply increased by 11,000mt in September Kyari pledges more transparency in NNPC’s operations Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Despite soaring cooking gas prices, which the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recently
attributed to short supply of the commodity, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), yesterday stated that the market has continued to grow beyond
expectations. In a statement in Abuja, yesterday, signed by the General Manager, Corporate Services, PPPRA, Kimchi Apollo, the organisation
stated that Nigeria presently produces a major portion of the LPG consumed in the country locally, stressing that the so-called “Decade of Gas”, remains on track.
The “growth” in the sector, the PPPRA stated, was because of the “enabling environment created by the federal government through its programmes and policies
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WSJ: How Nigerian Military Bought Back Anti-aircraft Gun from Kidnapping Gang Criminal gangs flush with ransom money, extorting governments Farmers sell land to free their children, incidence fuelling inflation NAF describes allegation of payments to bandits as ‘fake news’ Ugo Aliogo with agency report The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has described how the Nigerian military paid cash to buy back an anti-aircraft gun that posed a threat to President Muhammadu Buhari, who flew through the endangered airspace to his hometown, some 80 miles away.
The report alleged that kidnapping gangs that encamped in Nigeria’s Rugu forest had seized the anti-aircraft gun during a clash with a military unit. It stated that the ransom, almost $50,000 in crisp Nigerian bank notes, was paid to retrieve the weapon. Soldiers, intelligence officers,
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