Motorists across Nigeria have been spending long hours at filling stations to fill their tanks with fuel that has once again gone scare, local media reports suggest on Wednesday.
The Punch reports that amid the petrol scarcity black marketers had a field day, selling a litre of fuel at N300-N400 in many parts of the country.
Many motorists were forced to patronise them as the unpalatable alternative was to wait for hours around filling stations.
Amid long queues and waiting hours in Lagos, some filling stations sold a litre of the Premium Motor Spirit at N200/litre as against the approved price of N180-N185/litre.
One of our correspondents who visited some filling stations around Ikotun, Egbeda and Ojodu Berger areas on Monday and Tuesday witnessed long queues of yellow 10 litre gallons at the few stations that managed to sell.
Businessman, Kayode Oloriegbe, said he could not wait to buy from filling stations and had to patronise a black marketer who sold him fuel at N300/litre.
“I was lucky to buy a 10-litre gallon at N3,500. Others said they bought at higher prices from the black marketers,” he said.
Fuel scarcities are a regular occurence in Nigeria one of the biggest oil-producing nations in the world.
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