Nigeria: Obasanjo Begs On Fuel Scarcity

19 September 2000

Lagos — With the almost one-week fuel crisis crippling socio-economic activities in different parts of the country yesterday, President Olusegun Obasanjo sent an appeal to striking oil workers to call off their action so that fuel might flow again at filling stations.

Oil industry watchers, however, insisted last night that the problem of fuel shortage was more fundamental than the workers strike.

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