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In a bid to ease the fuel scarcity in Abuja, the Department of Petroleum Resources, Abuja, said 335 trucks of petroleum products were released from the depot between Monday and Tuesday.
Long queues for fuel had resurfaced in Abuja on Monday, one week after the city experienced petrol scarcity, as hundreds of motorists besieged the few filling stations that sold the product.
Many petrol stations, especially in the city centre, were shut to customers without any explanation as to why they were not selling.
Hundreds of motorists thronged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s mega stations on Olusegun Obasanjo way Central Area and Zuba-Abuja expressway to get fuel.
The Zonal Controller, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Abuja, Mallam Usman Mohammed, attributed the return of long queues in the city to non lifting of fuel by the petroleum tanker drivers due to a minor problem over the weekend between Con Oil, Mobil, Total and depot managers.
According to him, the problem is also compounded by panic buying and the rush by those that are traveling for the holiday.
He, however, said that the problem between the oil major marketers and depot managers had since been resolved and the petroleum tanker drivers had started to lift fuel from the depot to Abuja.
#Nigeria #Abuja
Long queues for fuel had resurfaced in Abuja on Monday, one week after the city experienced petrol scarcity, as hundreds of motorists besieged the few filling stations that sold the product.
Many petrol stations, especially in the city centre, were shut to customers without any explanation as to why they were not selling.
Hundreds of motorists thronged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s mega stations on Olusegun Obasanjo way Central Area and Zuba-Abuja expressway to get fuel.
The Zonal Controller, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Abuja, Mallam Usman Mohammed, attributed the return of long queues in the city to non lifting of fuel by the petroleum tanker drivers due to a minor problem over the weekend between Con Oil, Mobil, Total and depot managers.
According to him, the problem is also compounded by panic buying and the rush by those that are traveling for the holiday.
He, however, said that the problem between the oil major marketers and depot managers had since been resolved and the petroleum tanker drivers had started to lift fuel from the depot to Abuja.
#Nigeria #Abuja
