Nigeria: Queues Resurface in Filling Stations As Fuel Scarcity Looms

19 February 2014

Few weeks after the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) warned of imminent fuel scarcity, following the delay in the release of the first quarter 2014 petrol import allocations to marketers by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), long queues of motorists waiting to buy petrol have resurfaced in Lagos and other parts of the South-west, THISDAY has learnt.

THISDAY gathered that with the non-release of the import allocations, Oil Marketing and Trading (OM&T) companies and other importers had since exhausted their allocations for the fourth quarter of 2013.

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