Petrol queue returns to Lagos, Abuja and other cities

There are long queues of vehicles at the few filling stations selling petrol in the commercial city of Lagos and the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja.

It is the same situation in many state capitals, cities and towns across the country. Major roads in Lagos were empty because motorists did not have petrol to move around. Black market boomed with the scarcity of the product.

The Nigerian national Petroleum Company limited (NNPCL) attributed the scarcity of the product to a distribution glitch. Olufemi Soneye, spokesman of the NNPCL, charged motorists to shun panic buying as it works round the clock with relevant stakeholders to restore normalcy.

He added that the challenge was temporary.

Similarly, fuel queues resurfaced in Lagos as many filling stations ran out of stock, leading to closures and long queues at the stations