The OPEC meeting came to town today. Yesterday the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the parastatal responsible for importing most of Nigeria’s petrol, diesel and kerosene announced it was doubling Abuja’s daily supply from 60 tankers to 120.
Can you imagine? Nigeria, the fifth biggest oil exporter in the world, hosting an OPEC meeting for the first time ever, and what’s that at the filling station across the road form the Hilton? Oh, it’s a kilometre long queue for petrol.
We’re finding out if the supply has increased to other parts of the country.
NNPC staff in Abuja last week said the queues were because of “panic buying”, not shortages. In Kano they said it was because “tankers were stuck out to sea in a storm”…
Can you imagine? Nigeria, the fifth biggest oil exporter in the world, hosting an OPEC meeting for the first time ever, and what’s that at the filling station across the road form the Hilton? Oh, it’s a kilometre long queue for petrol.
We’re finding out if the supply has increased to other parts of the country.
NNPC staff in Abuja last week said the queues were because of “panic buying”, not shortages. In Kano they said it was because “tankers were stuck out to sea in a storm”…
posted by Andrew Walker at 12:45 pm
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