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New PMS pump price: Most filling stations ignore FG’s directives
Most petrol stations in Nigeria on Friday failed to comply with the Federal Government’s directive to sell petrol at N86 per litre for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) retail stations and N86.50k for other marketers.
A Saturday Tribune survey on Friday revealed that consumers still bought fuel as high as N130 per litre in some metropolis in the country. However, there was skeletal compliance by some filling stations especially in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
In some parts of Lagos, some fuel stations simply ignored the Federal government’s directive.
While most of the filling stations between Iyana Ipaja and Ile Epo Area on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway were under lock, a few that sold the product were still selling at N87 per litre.
For instance, Al-Maroof, Ramonak and A.A. Ranus, the popular filling stations that were active few days ago, were not opened for businesses at the time of filing in this report.
However, a filling station that is almost opposite Pleasure Bus stop in the area, was seen dispensing fuel, at the old price of N87, while some that bought inside jerry cans were made to pay between N50 and N100 extra.
Even the NNPC station at Abule Taylor area of Agbado was not selling despite the fact that it fully sold on Thursday. The same situation played out at a station just a few metres away. A mega private station, located between Ijaiye and Meiran area of Agbado and which has about 10 dispensing tanks and had served motorists several times during the scarcity period, also didn’t sell petrol.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who went round Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), reported that all the stations visited had enough products, as well as standby trucks loaded with petrol and sold the product at the official rate of N86 per litre.
NAN also reported that the stations visited such as Conoil, Oando, Total and Mobil filling stations within the city centre witnessed very low patronage.