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The fuel crisis being experienced by Nigerians is yet to abate even as petrol vessels birthed at Lagos and other ports in the country.

Our correspondent observed that the queues in Abuja, Lagos and other parts of the country persisted on Tuesday as the tanks run dry in filling stations.

Dealers who spoke to The PUNCH disclosed that petrol vessels were berthing at the ports one after the other, saying this may not be enough to rescue the situation.

According to them, depot owners now supply fuel to their filling stations only due to low supply.

“The depots are not wet yet. We are still doing epileptic loading. No product for third parties. That is, the depots are prioritising their own stations.

“That is always the case for depot operators. They will prefer to keep their stations wet to promote customer loyalty. Independent marketers will be left in the cold,” a dealer said.

Another source told our correspondent, “It’s not that vessels are not berthing, but the rate cannot meet the expected loading to reduce queues. We need to double up. Apapa jetty alone needs at least two vessels discharging simultaneously, but the vessels are coming one after the other and that cannot solve the pending problem.”

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Ports Authority said 16 ships were awaiting to berth at the Lagos ports as of Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria said this was disclosed in the Tuesday edition of the ‘NPA Shipping Position’, a daily briefing by the port authority.

According to the NPA, two vessels are set to berth with petrol, while another two will arrive with bulk and butane gas.


“The 16 vessels will berth at ENL Consortium, AMPT, Apapa Bulk, and Greenview Development Nigeria Ltd. terminals in Lagos,” the NPA stated.

NAN reports that nine vessels are currently discharging crude oil, diesel, containers, gasoline oil, and other cargoes at various ports in Lagos

The PUNCH reported that many petrol depots were dry as of Sunday, leading to fuel scarcity and attendant queues in Lagos, Ogun, parts of Abuja, Niger, and some other states across the country.

It was gathered that black marketers have since taken advantage of the situation, selling as high as N1,300 per litre and N1,500 per litre in parts of Lagos and Ogun states.

Long queues started building up at fuel stations in Abuja and Lagos on Friday and have persisted.

“The NNPC Ltd wishes to state that the tightness in fuel supply and distribution witnessed in some parts of Lagos and the FCT (Federal Capital Territory) is a result of a hitch in the discharge operations of a couple of vessels,” NNPC ‘s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, had stated.

The company added that it was “working round the clock with all stakeholders to resolve the situation and restore normalcy in the operations.”

However, despite the assurance by the NNPC, the situation has not improved as expected.

The PUNCH reports that the cost of transportation has increased as most filling stations are shut.

Source: https://punchng.com/Fuel-crisis-lingers-as-vessels-berth-at-Lagos-ports

Tinubu must resign.

Nothing is working in this country. Leaving the shore of the country, one will realize that Nigeria is a living hell.

Nawah o!

Everything is just upside down in this country. Tomorrow is the day , we go fall out en mass

is one problem to another everday

The deliberate wickedness and sabotage going on in the energy sector is very disheartening.

U see?

Let's wait for August Dangote



Cruise country

Planned game!







Una no see fuel to burn tyres during protest

NNPC is full of lies, it's high time to overhaul the system. Tinubu you are not doing well at all at all

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God help us

The strange man without any economy knowledge has nothing to offer. We are too blinded by tribal, religion and political sentiment in this country. It is only Nigeria that has crude oil and still import fuel. No visionary leaders, but touts, drug barons, kidnappers, killers, certificate forgers and strange men without human feelings.

With fuel subsidy, there's scacity without subsidy, scacity. Shey na crime to be a Nigerian ni

This government really get thier own for body. No single contingency plan in place till things turns out upside down then fire brigade approach.

Even if there will be scacity of fuel, it shouldn't be when there's tension such as now that protest is about taking place. Because, it will make people more angrier.

Lol
The more you look the less you see 😊

One of the top owners of crude oil is lacking fuel...
Funny right

Fuel scarcity in the middle of a planned protest. That combination nor make sense o

Isn’t it obvious that APC led Tinubu government is confused ?

Tell me one good thing that the poor people benefit from since this calamity came in to power

No positive news since tinubu came into power apart from propaganda, threats, lies and fake statistics.

Tinubu should step down please

Oil subsidy must go.

A seet message never was spoken

Let me make my contribution as an APC supporter.
Each person should consider refining petrol in their own backyard, as it is unrealistic to expect the government to address all issues comprehensively.

No subsidy
Yet scarcity 😳🥱

Tinubu is indeed, overratee

Tinubu pls sir overhaul the NNPCL
This kyari is not invisible

UnfairLife7:
Tinubu should step down please

He should, but it should be noted that the same fuel crisis has always existed in one form or the other since 1976 and tinubu as we know was not the man in charge. ( His master buhari was petroleum minister though, but until 1979)

The main reason for this crisis is simple. Fuel is not being sold profitably. If fuel was sold profitably there would be no scarcity.

That is why for over 4 decades now, various government and nnpc bosses and economic experts have repeatedly told us that removing fuel subsidies works. Keeping them is why we have this mess.

Ghana and Niger have no fuel subsides. They also produce crude and also have no issues keeping fuel supplied. Even Niger with all the sanctions still has fuel and a working refinery.because they sell fuel at a profit.

Subsides don't work..and sadly the last best chance we had to remove them without hardship was 2012. We said no. Now they cannot be removed without some hardships