The long fuel queues experienced across major states and cities in Nigeria are expected to ease soon as the loading of the product resumes at Lagos depots this Tuesday.
Media reports that there is a shortage of fuel supply in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, parts of Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger and other states amid the ongoing hunger protests.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, IPMAN, has blamed truck movement restrictions as a result of the protests for fuel supply glitches in major cities.
However, a source at the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, who is not authorised to speak, said the Lagos Depots have resumed loading so the queues will soon fade.
“Fuel scarcity to ease soon. There were activities today (Tuesday) in some depots that took fuel during the ongoing protest,” he said.
Earlier, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited explained that the tightness in fuel supply and distribution witnessed in some parts of Lagos and the FCT was a result of a hitch in the discharge operations of a couple of vessels.
The NNPC Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, had stated that the company was “working round the clock with all stakeholders to resolve the situation and restore normalcy in the operations.”
Recall the hunger protests which started on Thursday last week had affected the economic activities of major cities in the last six days.
