There has been paralyzed activities across the country on Wednesday as may filling stations in Nigeria run out of petrol.
According to report, many filling stations in Nigeria are still not dispensing Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol.
According to source, places like Abuja, Lagos, Rivers, Bayelsa, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Kano, Ogun states, among others, queues by motorists for petrol greeted the very limited number of filling stations that dispensed the commodity.
According to source, the scarcity in petrol is as a result of the adulterated petrol imported into Nigeria about two weeks had led to a hike in the cost of the commodity in many states.
It is said that places like Abuja and some parts of Niger and Nasarawa, black marketers sold petrol for as high as N600 per liter.
Meanwhile, oil marketers also restated on Wednesday they were making moves to start blending the adulterated PMS since the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited had yet to recall all the contaminated products.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC on Tuesday stated that they were working to address the issue as they made it known that over 2.3 billion litres of PMS would arrive in the country between now and the end of February 2022.
Oil firm said in a statement issued in Abuja made it known that as of today, the NNPC has over one billion litres of petrol in stock and the PMS being dispensed today at the various filling stations in the country is safe.
But despite the promises made by NNPC, the queues across the country persisted and the cost of petrol continued to rise above the official rate of N165/liter.
A photo shared by Instablog shows the moment a delivery motorcycle was carrying fuel to be delivered to someone.