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Air Peace has deployed its aircraft to evacuate Nigerians who are stranded in Europe.
Air Peace in a statement on Thursday by Mr. Stanley Olisa, spokesman of the airline said that the first batch of Nigerians would be evacuated by the airline.
Olisa stated that the aircraft departed Nigeria at 2:20am on Thursday morning for Warsaw, Poland.
The Federal Government had given Air Peace and Max Air to evacuate the stranded Nigerians from Ukraine.
No fewer than 2000 Nigerian nationals would be evacuated by the two carriers from neighbouring countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia
OIL AND GAS
Nigeria’s Fuel Stock Sufficient-NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has assured Nigerians that it has sufficient stock of petroleum products for distribution across the country.
The corporation also said that it has over 1.7billion litres of PMS both on marine and on the land and has no plan to adjust the current price of PMS in the market.
The Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC) Malam Mele Kyari gave the assurance while addressing Editors in a joint press briefing with , Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).
He lamented that the current fuel queues at the filling station is as a result of panic paying.
He implored Nigerians to desist from panic buying and buy what they need per day, stressing that he is working assiduously with partners to ensure the product reaches every part of the country.
He added: “NNPC is further intensifying efforts to resolve distribution hitches being experienced in some parts of the country due to logistics issues,” , we have engaged depot operators to load product round the clock to accelerate the restoration of normal distribution.”
‘We have capacity now to load from all depots . we are currently running 24 hours loading from all our depots and we believe this will close the gap created by panic buying.
We hope this will bring normalcy to the system soon
The GMD has engaged the services of government security agencies to ensure that all products loaded get to the right destination and affirmed that sanction will be melted to any operator selling above the stipulated pump price.
“We sincerely apologize to our people and urge Nigerians to continue to be patient as we strive to return the situation to normalcy,” he stated
As the supplier of last resort, NNPC has continued to sustain adequate petroleum products supply and distribution to the nation despite challenges associated with the unending waves of pipeline vandalism, product theft and Cross-border smuggling of PMS”
“In line with the existing laws of the land, NNPC Ltd. is deeply committed to ensuring energy security for the country,” the GMD said
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