Nigeria: Fuel scarcity to end by weekend

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC on Wednesday assured Nigerians that the issues of long fuel queues as well as petrol scarcity across the country will disappear by the weekend.

According to the group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr Maikanti Baru, who gave the assurance while addressing reporters in Abuja said NNPC is winning the war and putting in place adequate measures to ensure the product is easily accessible to the people in all parts of the country.

“I promise by weekend, most of the abrasions we’ve been noticing will disappear. You could see that we are winning the war,” said Baru

He continued, “the queues have significantly subsided in Abuja; In Lagos, they’ve almost become none existent and, of course, we are pushing it to the other cities as well as to the hinterlands.”