Tuesday, March 4, 2014

FUEL SCARCITY IN NIGERIA

NIGERIA - Oil marketers in Lagos State on Tuesday said the distribution of imported petrol to filing stations has commenced nationwide.

The marketers in separate interviews in Lagos disclosed that vessels laden with imported petroleum products had berth at the high sea.

One of the major marketers  said that the delay by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) in approving the first quarter fuel allocation to marketers, was responsible for scarcity.

He added that ships laden with petrol had started to berth since the early hours of Tuesday on the high sea.

The marketer said they would immediately begin the discharge the product into system 2B for channelling to all NNPC depots.

He gave Nigerians the assurance that the observed queues at filling stations would disappear by Thursday 'when all stations would have received the product before the close of work on Wednesday.

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