Nigeria loses billions due to vandals’ atrocities
From Muhammad S.D Wando, Minna

It has been observed that Nigeria had lost billions of naira on petroleum products due to vandalisation of pipelines and petroleum equipments and installations in the country.
A Suleja-based petroleum marketer, Alhaji Suleman Abubakar, who made this observation in an interview with journalists in Suleja, Wednesday, lamented over the high rate of activities of vandals, which he said pose a great challenge and damage on the nation’s economy.
The petroleum dealer further observed that, the sabotage on the petroleum sector has been the bane of the nation’s economy being the major sector of the economy for the country.
Alhaji Abubakar then called on the security agencies in the country and the general public, to rise against this ugly trend towards curtailing the menace once and for all, for the nation to move forward.
Meanwhile, the fuel scarcity been experienced in some parts of the country has restricted movement of people and services during Chrismas and the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir and New Year celebration across the country, due to hike in transport fares.
``All over Africa and the third world, there will be introduction of enhanced, personalized and collective transport in form of sub-way transit, airlines, and heavy exploitation of inland water ways and high way transportation,'' he said.
Gulma also said at the beginning the second millennium most cars were made with steel,saying the trend would soon change as Aluminum Intensive Vehicles (AVIS) would take over.
According to him, the aluminum car will burn less fuel because it will weigh half as much as similar vehicles made of steel.
``Light cars burn less fuel, aluminum will generally improve fuel economy by 40 per cent" he said.
He said aluminum cars produce less carbon dioxide and this would lessen the worrisome global warming as it would reduce the green house effect.
He maintained that the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere would be reduced by 20 per cent.
He predicted that in the third millennium hydrogen fuel would chase away petrol cars into the museum and would result into lower cost in the world transportation.