Drivers in Nigeria are growing increasingly irritated with the lack of petrol as most major and independent marketers have closed their filling stations, making the already precarious situation worse. The few remaining filling stations have raised the price of the commodity to between N800 and N1000.
A 4-liter gallon was being sold for between N 5000 and N6000, indicating that black market sellers of petrol, particularly the roadside fuel vendors, were having a field day.
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As the shortage continues, NNPCL and the oil marketers have been blaming each other for the true causes of the commodity’s scarcity. NNPCL maintained that the lengthy lines throughout Nigeria were caused by a recent thunderstorm that interfered with the loading of petrol from mother vessels to daughter vessels.
According to the national oil corporation, bad weather has also interfered with truck load-outs carrying goods to filling stations and berthing at jetties, disrupting station supply procedures.
On the other hand, the marketers maintained that they were unable to use the NNPCCL portal to order the item.
