Despite claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited that it has been releasing litres of petrol to the public, the scarcity has refused to abate.
In its latest weekly national PMS evacuation report for February 21 to 26, 2022, the NNPC said it evacuated an additional 381.88 million litres of petrol during the period.
About a week ago, the oil firm said that it distributed a total of 387.59 million litres of PMS from February 14 to 20, 2022, in a bid to bridge the petrol supply gap.
Regardless, the queues for petrol in filling stations that dispensed the commodity on Sunday remained massive in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger, as well as Lagos.
Queues formed by motorists were seen at the Nipco filling station along the Kubwa end of the Kubwa-Zuba expressway in Abuja. In Cuba, Niger State, motorists besieged the few outlets that sold petrol, forming long queues.
But in its PMS weekly evacuation report for February 21 to 26, 2022, the NNPC said it evacuated a total of 381.88 million litres of petrol, representing an average daily evacuation of 63.65 million litres, while the year-to-date daily average was put at 60.86 million litres.
It said 80 per cent of all the evacuation took place at the top 20 high loading depots, while 20 per cent of the remaining evacuation took place at the other depots.
These high load-out depots include Pinnacle-Lekki with 43.259 million litres; Aiteo, 22.462 million litres; A.A. Rano, 22.43 million litres; A.Y.M Shafa, 19.232 million litres; and Prudent, 17.788 million litres, among others.
