Fuel Scarcity - Petrol Now N400 Per Litre In Some States.

The ongoing scarcity of Premium Motor
Spirit also known as petrol is biting harder
in the country as users are forced to pay far
above the recommended price of N87 per
litre in most of the filling stations that sell
the product, SUNDAY PUNCH has found out.
Investigations by our correspondents also
revealed that petrol now sells in some states
as high as N400 per litre while in others it
goes between N110 and N200.
However, some filling stations as at press
time on Saturday, according to our
correspondents, still sold the product at the
official price of N87 per litre. These filling
stations, findings showed, were however
few and inundated with long queues of
motorists, motorcyclists and other users.
In Cross River State, a litre of petrol was
sold for as high as N400 in Calabar and
environs on Saturday morning.
Tanker drivers across the state and beyond
had on Monday refused to load the product
from the Calabar Depot in protest of the
deplorable situation of federal roads in the
state.
As at the time of filing this report, most
service stations had yet to commence the
sale of the product to the public. Black
marketeers had continued to have a field
day.
Many petrol stations in Akwa Ibom State,
particularly those in Ibesikpo/Asutan, Eket,
and Itu Local Government Areas on
Saturday sold petrol at N200 per litre.
In Uyo, the State capital, while the price
fluctuated between N170 and N180 per litre,
motorists said many of the filling stations
had adjusted their metres regardless of the
amount they pay for buying fuel.
In Ondo State, long queues of vehicles
persisted in many filling stations in many
towns on Saturday even as many of them
sold petrol at N120 per litre.
In Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, there long
queues at filling stations on Saturday
especially those owned by major
marketeers.
A litre of petrol was being sold between
N100 and N110 depending on the distance
of the area to the state capital.
In Enugu State, petrol was sold between
N130 and N150 per litre.
Our correspondent, who bought the
commodity at the cost of N140 per litre in
the state capital on Saturday, learnt that the
product was being offered to motorists for
N150 in other filling stations.
In Oyo State, fuel scarcity reached a height
as few vehicles plied the roads.
More than 85 per cent of major oil
marketeers were not selling the product
while a few independent oil marketers sold
between N110 and N120 per litre.
The queues by motorists for petrol
continued on Saturday in some filling
stations in Abuja and Nasarawa State.
 

All petrol stations visited in Abuja on
Saturday sold at the regulated price, but
many were not open for business as they
claimed not to have products.
In Benue State, Sunday PUNCH visited the
NNPC Mega filling station along Oturkpo
road where the queue for the product was
over four kilometres long. It was the only
fuel station selling at the official pump price
of N87 per litre.
Meanwhile, black marketeers have taken
over the town as they sold at N200 and
N250 per litre.
In Gboko and the other local government
areas it was sold at N170 per litre.
Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH
correspondent, who went round some parts
of Nassarawa State, observed that it was
only the NNPC mega station that sold at N87
per litre while others sold at N160 per.
In Bayelsa State, particularly Yenagoa, the
state capital, a few filling stations that were
selling the product on Saturday sold a litre
of petrol between N130 and N150.
The NNPC mega filling stations in the
Yenagoa metropolis were the only ones
selling at the government regulated price of
N87 but the queues were very long.
A litre of PMS was sold for N100 in many
filling stations in Ogun State except NNPC
stations and those of major marketeers on
Saturday.
In Osogbo, the Osun State capital and other
parts of the state, petrol was sold at N110
per litre.
In Lagos, our correspondent learnt on
Saturday that while the NNPC and major
marketers sold at N87, black marketers sold
five litres of petrol at N600.

Source: PunchNg