Nigerians groan as fuel scarcity bites harder

…In Port Harcourt, for instance, petrol was sold at N65 per litre in filling stations within the city, but outside the city, it was N130 per litre and N150 in Yenagoa.
Meanwhile, fuel hawkers continue to make brisk business from the misfortune of hapless motorists, with 10 litres of fuel selling for N2,000 along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway.

As a result of the scarcity of petroleum products and the attendant traffic jams, many workers could not get to their offices. Some enterprises opened late for business and some others stayed shut.

Reports from across the country indicated that the fuel situation in Lagos is replicated in other places, with petrol being hawked in cellophane bags at prohibitive prices in some parts of the north where the product can be found.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja, weekend, Dr. Funsho Kupolokun, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, said the wanton vandalisation of petroleum products pipelines was responsible for the hiccups being experienced in the supply chain.

Vanguard