Motorists and residents in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, have started to experience the return of long queues at petrol stations.
This was seen in a video posted by ICIR on Wednesday evening, capturing long queues of cars and other road users at different filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“Fuel queues return to Abuja. The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, has again returned to the FCT, causing queues at the few filling stations still dispensing the product,” ICIR captioned the video.
This comes barely two days after the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, projected that Nigeria would become a net exporter of petroleum products by 2024.
Speaking at the PENGASSAN Energy and Labour Summit 2023 in Abuja on Monday, Kyari agreed that Nigeria, considering its natural endowments should not be exporting 100 per cent of its crude as it currently does.
“Today, we export 100 per cent of our productions, no resource-dependent country does this and that is why we must deliver on our mandate. I don’t want to speak about it; when it is done, you will see it,” Kyari said.
He continued: “So, I don’t want to tell you we are going to revamp our refineries. That is too much of PowerPoint talks. So, it will be done and you will see it. I don’t want to speak about it, we are tired of speaking about it.
“But what we must achieve is that this country must be a net exporter of petroleum products and this is within sight.”
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