Fuel scarcity has hit parts of Zamfara State, with many filling stations under lock and key.

Newsmen observed that most filling stations in Gusau, Kaura Namoda, Tsafe and other places were not dispensing the commodity.

A liter of fuel is being sold at between N800 and N850.

However, efforts to speak with some Independent oil marketers proved abortive as they refused to comment on the issue.

Vehicle drivers and motorcycle riders, who spoke with DAILY POST, expressed dismay over the return of long queues at the filling stations.

“We were rejoicing that the long queues at filling stations had gone, but the problem is back,” one Abubakar Tukur said.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dismissed claims that its Chairman, Ola Olukoyede subjected the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to a media trial.

Olukoyede had organized a press conference where he disclosed that Bello withdrew $720,000 from a government account to pay his child’s school fees.

He also claimed that the former governor told the EFCC to come over to his village and interrogate him.

The EFCC Chairman further vowed to resign if he fails to arrest Bello and follow through the investigation.

But a former Vice President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Prof. Nwoke Chijioke, disagreed with Olukoyede.

Chijioke said the press conference was a wrong approach and an unfair trial.

Chijioke said, ‘’The EFCC chairman’s press conference of yesterday was really uncalled for. That is an unfair trial. All these challenges are because of what I would call a media trial.”

However, EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said Olukoyede’s revelations did not violate any rule.

A statement by Oyewale said, “There is nothing the chairman said on Tuesday that was not already in the public domain.

“Also, we have filed our processes, and everything is before the court, so the chairman did not say anything that is not already in public domain.

“The chairman himself is a lawyer, and he knows his onions. Everything he said was within his rights as the Chief Executive Officer of the EFCC.”

President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the Eze family over the passing of Sen. Ayogu Eze.

Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

The late politician represented Enugu North Senatorial Zone in the Senate from 2007 to 2015.

Ngelale said during Eze’s time in the Senate, he held several positions, including Committee Chairman on Information and Media and Chairman of the Committee on Works, among others.

He said the president also commiserated with friends, associates, and former colleagues of the deceased, including the National Assembly as an institution.

Ngelale said Tinubu prayed to God Almighty to grant the soul of the departed repose and comfort to those in mourning.