The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday declared that 12 cargoes laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol are currently discharging in Lagos, Calabar and Port Harcourt ports in order to wet the nation with robust supply and distribution of petrol.
The corporation and its downstream subsidiary Nigerian Products Marketing Company (NPMC), which said this in a late Tuesday statement, added that fuel supply and distribution situation has drastically improved in Abuja and its environs stating that the long fuel queues have virtually eased out following the increase truck out from 186 to 240 trucks on Tuesday.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Mallam Garba Deen Muhammad stated this after a tour of some filling stations in Abuja and its environs on Tuesday, maintaining that the supply will be sustained on Wednesday.
Mallam Muhammad informed that the NNPC, Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, and the Independent Petroleum Marketing Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, are all trucking out petrol from their various marine and inland depots to stabilize the situation.
