The situation has remained worse since the Yuletide when many vehicles were on the road to convey people travelling to various parts of the country for celebration. The glimpse of hope raised by the reparation of the Arepo pipeline was dashed with the vandalism and explosion of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline at Ije-dodo in Ijegun, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State last week.
A monitoring of filling stations in Lagos yesterday showed that more filling stations are getting dry and the few that opened had very long queues. Some retail outlets that were selling collected extra money from the customers. Fuel attendants that were courteous in their approach would casually tell the customer: “N200 after selling to you, do I continue?” Some collect theirs before selling to the customer.
Our correspondent, who monitored filling stations in Ikeja and Lagos Island, including Victoria Island and some suburbs of Lagos such as Iyana-Ipaja, discovered that few filling stations in the metropolis were selling, with many marketers claiming lack of supply for closure of their stations. The retail outlets in the suburbs sold above the pump price of N97 per litre. Some were selling at N110 per litre.
Source: The Nation
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