Fuel queues have resurfaced within Lagos metropolis, due to hike in the pump price of petrol by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
Our correspondent, who moved round the Lagos metropolis, observed that most filling stations have adjusted their pump price.
The correspondent also noticed that fuel is sold between N580 and N600 at most filling stations, owned by both major and independent marketers.
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The hike in price of petrol is sequel to the increase in ex-depot price of petrol from N446.57 per liter to N580 per liter.
However, the situation has triggered panic buying as motorists raced to filling stations to buy petrol.
There were also queues at Mobil Filling Station on Ikorodu Road, TotalEnergies at Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, Amuf Filling Station at Bariga and Conoil in Ikorodu. while there were vehicles on a long stretch within and outside most of the facilities.
A visit to Northwest Station in Gbagada showed N570 per litre, Mobil at Anthony, N580, Amuf in Palmgrove, N558 and Conoil in Ikeja, N590.
Also, some of the NNPCL retail outlets monitored were selling at N600 per litre.
Consequently, the development led to queues extending to major roads from those facilities, compounding traffic woe.
Motorists and commuters in Sango-Ota, Ogun, have expressed shocked over the new pump prices of petrol.
Pump price of petrol n the state has been increased to between N580 to N617 per litre.
NNPCL attributed the new pump prices of petrol to response to market realities.
A correspondent who monitored the development around Sango-Ota and its environs, discovered that the few filling stations selling the product had adjusted their pump price.
Few filling stations like NIPCO, NNPC and Mobil Filling Station, that were selling the product witnessed long queues of vehicles.
Some of the filling stations were hoarding the product while long queue at various filling stations resulted to traffic gridlocks on some of the major roads in Sango-Ota.
Mr Bola Martins, a motorist, described the situation as uncalled for, as Nigerians were still struggling with the petrol price that was recently increased.
“Nigerians are really going through hard times and there is urgent need for the Federal Government to ensure measures that will help to ameliorate the sufferings of the people.” Martins said.
Mr Jide Onabanjo, a commercial motorist, said that the new price of petrol would be added to transport fares for the people.
Onabanjo said that this development would further increase the prices of goods and services in the country.
“We can’t continue like this because we have been pushed to the wall.” he said.
Onabanjo said that it was unbelievable that the fuel that he bought for N488 per litre at one of the NNPCL stations had gone up to N617 today.
Mrs Sade Aderanti, a civil servant, said that the new pump prices of petrol would automatically has huge impacts on living standards of Nigerians.
Aderanti said that she had been on the queue for over three hours and yet had not been able to buy fuel.
She appealed to Federal Government to expedite action in putting palliative measures in place for civil servants as well as Nigerians, at large, to reduce the untold hardships.
