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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Thursday, 10 February, 2022
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Thursday, February, 10th 2022.
The PUNCH reports that consumers of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, are allegedly arresting workers and owners of filling stations over the sale of adulterated products that have reportedly affected their vehicles’ engines.
These are not the best of times for many Nigerians going by the rising costs of goods and services, just as local airlines, yesterday, raised the alarm over a massive spike in price of aviation fuel currently selling at N400/litre in some airports nationwide across the country, The Guardian reports.
One week after detection of bad petrol in some states of the federation, evacuation is yet to start due mainly to huge volume of the product, logistics and costs to be borne in the process of moving it from depots and filling stations to designated points, Vanguard reports.
How did the adulterated petrol get into the country? Whose negligence or compromise led to it? These and other issues around the toxic petrol are to be unravelled after a probe by the Federal Government, Minister of State Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva said yesterday. The Nation discloses
According to This Day, the Nigerian National Company Limited (NNPC) yesterday stated that its investigation has revealed the presence of Methanol in four petrol cargoes imported by MRS, Emadeb/Hyde/AY Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium, Oando and Duke Oil.
Critical stakeholders in the country cutting across political divides – comprising 14 governors, captains of industries, ministers and pressure groups – have come together under the aegis of the 2022 Committee to chart a new course for the country. Daily Trust gathered that they were hosted by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at Eko Hotel, Lagos at the weekend.
Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
