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NSCDC Threatens To Sanction Filling Stations In Jigawa

January 18, 2020 10:37 am

Jigawa State command of the Nigerian security and civil defence corps, NSCDC, has threatened to sanction filling stations and cooking gas vendors that are operating below standard across the state.

Spokesman of the command, SC Adamu Shehu disclosed this in a press statement issued to DAILY POST in Dutse.

He said the Command observed with dismay the nonchalant attitudes displayed by some of those businesses to safety standards set aside during emergencies.

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The statement explained that in its recent inspection tour to some filling stations and cooking gas selling

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DPR Seals 17 Filling Stations In Gombe

December 26, 2019 4:51 am

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Gombe State on Wednesday, sealed six filling stations for diversion of over 800,000 litres of petroleum product and operating with expired license.

Alhaji Abdullahi Abawa, DPR Head of Operation, disclosed this shortly after an inspection visit to some filling stations in Gombe.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the number of filling stations shut down so far in Gombe has risen to 17.

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Eleven filling stations were sealed on Monday for sharp practices.

Abawa said that most of the affected

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DPR Seals NNPC Filling Station For Flouting Safety Standard

December 6, 2019 7:20 am

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Eket Field Office has sealed-off a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) filling station in Uyo for discharging petroleum product and dispensing product to motorists at the same time. Operations Controller of DPR in Akwa Ibom, Tamunoiminabo Kinsgley-Sundaye disclosed this yesterday while on routine surveillance in Uyo.

He said it was surprising an NNPC filling station could commit such offense and unsafe act, noting that filling stations must end discharging products before selling products to members of the public.He stressed that it was an offence for filling stations to discharge and dispense petrol and other …

DPR Seals Filling Station In llorin Over Damaged Pumps

November 5, 2019 5:08 pm

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday sealed off an MRS filling station in llorin, the Kwara capital, for allegedly selling fuel with damaged pumps and under dispensing.

Mr Sule Yusuf the DPR Operations Controller in Kwara, ordered that the station be sealed off when he led officials of the organisation on an on-the-spot assessment of operations of filling stations in the state.

The MRS filling station sealed is located on Wahab Folawiyo and lbrahim Taiwo road in the llorin metropolis.

The DPR Operations Controller told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the station would remain shut

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