{"id":47981,"date":"2016-03-29T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=47981"},"modified":"2016-03-29T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:32:18","slug":"fuel-scarcity-sorry-kachikwu-begs-nigerians-queues-end-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fuel-scarcity-sorry-kachikwu-begs-nigerians-queues-end-april-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Scarcity: I Am Sorry, Kachikwu begs Nigerians, Queues to End April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following backlashes which trailed his comments that the biting fuel\u00a0scarcity across parts of the country would linger till May, Nigeria\u2019s\u00a0Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in a dramatic u-turn on\u00a0Tuesday, said that the long queues in the country\u2019s petrol stations would\u00a0disappear on Monday, April 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Kachikwu who is also the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National\u00a0Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) disclosed this when he appeared before the\u00a0Senate committee on Petroleum (Downstream) over the fuel scarcity ravaging\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said: \u201cBy 6th or 7th April, the long queues in filing stations would disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He apologized to Nigerians over his statement that the biting fuel\u00a0scarcity will linger till May.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following backlashes which trailed his comments that the biting fuel\u00a0scarcity across parts of the country would linger till May, Nigeria\u2019s\u00a0Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in a dramatic&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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