NNPC Pumps Over 25m Litres of Petrol as Scarcity Bites Harder

Despite growing queues for petrol by motorists at service stations, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday said that its downstream marketing arm, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) has distributed a total of 25,042,686 litres of petrol to 11 of depots across the country as at Monday.

NNPC had last Friday insisted that the country has enough petrol stocks to last for about 35 days going by her average 40 million litres per day consumption rate.

The corporation had said in Abuja that its existing record showed that the country had an in-country stock of about 657 million litres of petrol which would last for 16 days, as well as additional 756 million litres supply stock which has been confirmed for delivery into the country’s ports for November.

It however said in a daily petrol distribution record for November 14 and 15 which it sent out, that this much was sent to its depots in Suleja; Kaduna; Kano; Minna; Gusau; Satellite Town; Ilorin; Ore; Ibadan; Gombe and Aba.

Abuja, the nation's capital city has even with the supply continued to experience scarcity of the product, with motorists struggling to get supply from a couple of filling stations that have products to sell.