{"id":6681,"date":"2017-12-24T16:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2017-12-24T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:54:46","slug":"at-last-buhari-speaks-on-fuel-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6681","title":{"rendered":"At last, Buhari speaks on fuel scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Shitile Mbayansa<\/strong>, Abuja.<br \/>\n\u200eAfter nearly a week, Nigeria&#8217;s Petroleum Minister, President Muhammadu Buhari, has spoken up on the on-going painful fuel scarcity. His words in a statement he personally signed and posted on his twitter handle, @Mbuhari #FuelScarcity:<br \/>\n\u201cThe fuel scarcity being experienced nationwide is regrettable. I sympathize with all Nigerians on having to endure needless fuel queues.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m being regularly briefed, especially on the NNPC\u2019s interventions to ensure that there is enough petrol available during this period and beyond.<br \/>\n\u201cI have the NNPC\u2019s assurance that the situation will improve significantly over the next few days, as new shipments and supplies are distributed across the country.<br \/>\n\u201cI have also directed the regulators to step up their surveillance and bring an end to hoarding and price inflation by marketers.<br \/>\n\u201cLet me also assure that the relevant agencies will continue to provide updates on the situation. I thank you all for your patience and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shitile Mbayansa, Abuja. \u200eAfter nearly a week, Nigeria&#8217;s Petroleum Minister, President Muhammadu Buhari, has spoken up on the on-going painful fuel scarcity. His words in a statement he personally signed and posted on his twitter handle, @Mbuhari #FuelScarcity: \u201cThe fuel scarcity being experienced nationwide is regrettable. I sympathize with all Nigerians on having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}