Although the Federal government is the regulatory arbiter for petroleum price fixing, the template upon which its decision is premised is that arrived at by the Petrol Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPRA).
Prices of petrol products fluctuate every now and then. This may be caused by several factors, key of which is the price of crude oil at the international market, regulated, of course, by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The PPRA has been an important stakeholder in price fixing over the years.
In this month of March, it considered several factors and came up with a projection. The projection has pegged the price of PMS as N212.11 per litre. But it is important to know a fact or two about petroleum price fixing. First, the PPRA is the recognised agency that projects petroleum prices in Nigeria. They make projections but they are certainly not the final arbiter, as far as price fixing is concerned.
It is true that most times people would only say good things about a person, only when such person passes on. One of the things this may mean is that death is not necessarily a bad experience; it may afford an opportunity for the unfolding of good deeds.
Daba in his prime
Death, of course, may reduce number; but it may give room for number to be added. Death may first destroy; but it makes in the end. As it often does, death comes with sorrow; but it also ushers in joy. Death can dampen emotions; but it can also inspire. Death may signal the end; but it makes a new beginning. It can cause decay; but the decay it causes is the beginning of bloom, the beginning of growth.
By Taiwo George and Lexzy Ochibejivwie
The popular English playwright William Shakespeare averred in his play As You Like It that, ”All the world’s stage/And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.” In one of the sobering statements ever made about death and life, Shakespeare bears our mind to the truth about reality. All humans certainly have a part to play in this world and this part certainly must come to an end someday. And so it has been for one of Nigeria’s most passionate, most objective, most consistent and, of course, most dominant social critic – Dr Junaid Mohammed who died at the Kwanar Dawaki Isolation Centre in Kano, due to health complications. One of his sons said the result of the test conducted on him showed he was negative of Coronavirus.