Port Harcourt, Warri depots receive petrol as queues linger

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has supplied Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to the Port Harcourt and Warri depots as it strives to tackle lingering fuel queues witnessed nationwide, Oil marketers confirmed that the national oil firm deployed daughter vessels that moved PMS to the depots in Rivers and Delta States to decongest the trucks that besiege the Apapa depot in Lagos daily for petrol.
Report on Tuesday has it that, many tankers were currently at various depots in Lagos waiting to load petrol for onward delivery to states across the country as the scarcity of PMS worsens, even though some of the trucks had started loading PMS, the supply of the product by NNPC was still not enough, and to ease the traffic in Apapa and speed up the distribution process, the national oil firm had to send some daughter vessels of petrol to its depots in Warri and Port Harcourt.
The ongoing fuel scarcity has caused widespread frustration, with many calling for stricter regulations and immediate government intervention to ease the crisis.