Many residents were seen attempting to contain the fire using sand, water, and improvised methods.
Pensioners in Calabar, Cross River State have expressed dissatisfaction over the scanty palliatives available to them
NMDPRA officials visited over 50 filling stations during the inspection exercise.
The price of petrol has soared in Calabar, Cross River, since the “unfortunate” pronouncement by President Bola Tinubu to end the subsidy regime.
The commissioner was kidnapped on February 1 in the Mayne Avenue area, Calabar South.
The PDP candidate for the northern senatorial district, Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, defeated Mr Ayade by 76,145 votes against Ayade’s 56,595 votes.
A competent source in the council said the authorities gave an instruction that the secretariat should be locked up.
“Our biggest challenge is that of diesel. The board does not have the fund to power the generating sets to pump water,” Mr Ekpo disclosed.
