{"id":710,"date":"2017-12-24T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=710"},"modified":"2017-12-24T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T15:22:14","slug":"lingering-fuel-scarcity-arcbishop-okoduwa-says-situation-affecting-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lingering-fuel-scarcity-arcbishop-okoduwa-says-situation-affecting-festive-season","title":{"rendered":"Lingering Fuel Scarcity: Arcbishop Okoduwa Says Situation Is Affecting Festive Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">The Federal government has been urged to put on its thinking cap and end the fuel scarcity that has ruined this year\u2019s festive period for many Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yiv4642825252yMail_cursorElementTracker_1514026782779\">A clergy man Archbishop Peter Okoduwa however wondered it has now become a tradition in Nigeria to have fuel scarcity during the Christmas period.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4642825252yMail_cursorElementTracker_1514026848683\">He advised the government to change the narrative in order not to give an impression that the act is a deliberate state\u2019s policy<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4642825252yMail_cursorElementTracker_1514026907230\">Arcbishop Okoduwa also decried the current hardship facing Nigerians, saying that statistics have shown that it is only government officials and their relations that are immune from the deteriorating conditions of living.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv4642825252yMail_cursorElementTracker_1514026999579\">According to him, it is sad that Nigerians are suffering in the midst of plenty, he appealed to the government to make food available to the masses.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal government has been urged to put on its thinking cap and end the fuel scarcity that has ruined this year\u2019s festive period for many Nigerians. &nbsp; A clergy man Archbishop Peter Okoduwa however wondered it has now become a tradition in Nigeria to have fuel scarcity during the Christmas period. 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