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CITIZENS LAMENT LOW AVAILABILITY OF FUEL AMID HIKE IN PRICE



Nigerians have lamented low availability of fuel amid hike in price. This development followed closure of most filling stations, with the very few selling at exorbitant prices. Yet long ques were very much visible. 


In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), most of the filling stations in the city were without supply. Major fuel retail stations have shut their gates to customers, saying they have run out of stocks.


Stations shut in Abuja included A.A Rano in Airport Road and Shafa at City Gate, Total, AP, Mobil and others across the city.

However, most of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) stations in the city had fuel but with long queues.


The few filling stations that still have the product to dispense have jerked up the pump price to N750 per litre.


In Kano, motorists spent hours in long queues at most filling stations before they could buy fuel.


Long queues were conspicuous at NNPC filling stations at Kofar Nasarawa flyover by Kano Line, Ibrahim Taiwo Road and Kano Club roundabout.


Also, long queues were observed at the AA Rano filling station inside Bayero University’s new site - aa a litre of PMS was sold for N690.


In Kaduna, there were long queues at filling stations dispensing fuel including A.A. Rano filling station at Millennium City, Total filling station along Ahmadu Bello Way and MRS filling station along Ali Akilu Road all in Kaduna metropolis.


Major marketers including A.A. Rano and Shafa stations were selling at N690 per litre, while others including Shema sold above N700 per litre.


In Lagos, long queues were observed at major filling stations like the NNPC Retail outlets selling at N560 per litre while other major marketers selling at N590 and N610. 

In Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, nearly all filling stations including the two NNPC outlets were closed.

An independent marketer, Abdulrasheed Olapade blamed the queue on an anticipated crash in the price of fuel, saying most marketers were conscious of any sudden price reduction.

Chairman of the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Ejigbo Depot, Akinrinade Akinade said the scarcity is due to low supply from depots.

“I believe there is a shortfall of PMS. Most depots that I know of in the Lagos area are not loading,” he said

“For IPMAN, we don’t have fuel anywhere. We don’t have product in all the places we load,” he stated. According to him, the scarcity was not as a result of any impending price reduction but because most depots have run out of stocks. 

Citizens have lamented low availability of the product even at high prices, said it is killing their businesses and making lives more unbearable for them, as they rely on fuel for transportation and their business operations.

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