In efforts to ease the burden of current economic hardship, the\u00a0Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)\u00a0Ado-Ekiti Branch on Saturday, provided members with a 50% subsidy on cooking gas.<\/p>\n
The initiative dubbed the \u201cLawyers Gas Station\u2019\u2019 operated between 10am and 12 noon at Abound Gas station in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital attracted members who came in large numbers to refill their cooking gas cylinder.<\/p>\n
The discounts provided significant relief to the lawyers, with a kilogram of the LPG worth N1,300 sold for N650, thereby allowing them to allocate their resources on other necessities.<\/p>\n
Speaking to journalists, the NBA branch chairman, Taiwo Omidoyin said that the initiative was conceived to address the effects of current harsh economic climate in the country.<\/p>\n
Omidoyin said that the initiative would go a long way to help relieve financial burden on members in the face of the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n
He explained that cooking gas was sold to financial members at 50% discount of the general market price with a limit of LPG a member can buy was 12.5kg.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe leadership of the Branch is not unaware of the skyrocketing price of cooking gas and the general high cost of living in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is the dire need for the leadership of the Association to periodically come up with palliative measures to cushion the current harsh economic atmosphere in the country.<\/p>\n
In efforts to ease the burden of current economic hardship, the\u00a0Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)\u00a0Ado-Ekiti Branch on Saturday, provided members with a 50% subsidy on cooking gas. The initiative dubbed the \u201cLawyers Gas Station\u2019\u2019 operated between 10am and 12 noon at Abound Gas station in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital attracted members who came in large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":87475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-news","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t