Fuel Queues: Normalcy returning to FCT, stations getting supplies–Report
Normalcy in the dispensation of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as fuel is returning to the fuel stations in the FCT after a week scarcity.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that long fuel queues and scarcity were experienced in the FCT and some parts of the country with attendant hardship on citizens.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) had said that the queues were as a result of disruption of ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of fuel between Mother Vessels and Daughter Vessels resulting from recent thunderstorm.
It said adverse weather conditions including rainstorm and lightening had also affected berthing at jetties, truck load-outs and transportation of products to fuel stations; causing a disruption in station supply logistics.
The NNPC Ltd. and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) had embarked on a joint monitoring of supply and distribution of fuel at stations in the FCT and across the country to ensure that queues disappear.
However, a NAN correspondent who monitored fuel stations in the city centre and suburbs on Friday noticed that the queues have eased-off while normalcy is returning.
Many stations in the city centre, including Total, Cornoil, NNPC Ltd. Retail Mega Station, Church Gate and NNPC Ltd. retail outlets at Wuse Zone 1 and Zone 3 are dispensing fuel without queues.
The NNPC Ltd. retail station in Dankogi, Apo Resettlement and AA Rano, by NEPA Apo are also dispensing fuel to motorists without many queues.
Along Nyanya-Karshi road, AA Rano, JANEP, NIPCO and Mobile fuel stations are selling fuel without queues.
Along Kubwa Express Way, NIPCO, Eterna, AA Rano Katampe, NNPC Ltd. retail off Katampe and Conoil, Galadima are seen selling without queues.
NIPCO, SALBAS and Shafa (Shafa at N690 per litre) along the Airport road are also selling without queues.
NAN observes that the NNPC Ltd. retail outlets still sell at N617 per litre while the independent marketers sell between N660 to N900 per litre.
More so, along karshi route, Mobile sells at N667 mobile, AP at N660, JANEP at N900, AA Rano at N660 while NIPCO at Karu sells at N675 per litre.
