Fuel scarcity resurfaces in Ilorin as marketers hike price

Date: 2022-12-01

Another round of fuel scarcity has resurfaced in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

DAILY POST reports that the scarcity was noticed about two days ago amid long queues of motorists in a few fuel stations with the product.

Recall that the last fuel scarcity in Ilorin occurred following the crisis of leadership within the Petrol Tanker Drivers Union of Oke-Ogun, Saki, in Oyo State which led to disruption in the supply of fuel to Kwara State.

Efforts to reach officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, in Ilorin on Wednesday proved abortive.

Some of the filling stations owned by independent marketers now sell the product at between N220, N230, N250 or N280 per litre.

The major marketers, however, have retained the official pump price of N190 or N195 per litre though without a stable supply of the product.

Black marketers of the product have also capitalised on the scarcity to return to their usual business.

From the Maraba axis to Zango-Kulende area of the Ilorin metropolis, gallons are displayed along the road to announce the availability of the product by hawkers though at a high cost.

A four-litre gallon of petrol is sold at between N1,600 or N1,800, translating to N400 per litre.

A dealer of one of the TotalEnergies filling stations in Ilorin who confided in our correspondent disclosed that the scarcity was caused by low supply from Lagos depot.

In another reaction, an independent marketer, Tajudeen Balogun of Ara-Oje filling station, Abdulazeez Attah Road, Ilorin, said “since we don't refine our crude oil in the country but rely on importation there will always be a short supply of the product.”

He said until we put our house in order and do the needful, Nigeria will continue to face the perennial fuel crisis.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Balogun-Ojomu     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Mubarak Oladosu     Baba Isale     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Matthew Babaoye     Olaiya Lawal     Alao Ayotunde     Halimah Perogi     Kayode Issa     Garment Factory     NAWOJ     Nigeria Computer Society     Mahe Abdulkadir     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Bukola Ajikobi     Bamidele Aluko     A.O. Belgore     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Kwara University Of Education     Yusuf Badmus     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Students Union Government     IYA ALFA NLA     Www.Kwarareports.com     General Hospital, Ilorin     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Ahmed Dankaya     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Quarry Royal Valley     Ejidongari     Age AbdulKareem     Akanbi-Oke     Owo Arugbo     KW-GIS     Oko-Olowo     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Laduba     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Omoniyi     Mufutau Olatinwo     Saka Keji     Bola Tinubu     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Segun Olawoyin     Hamidu Olowo     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Lanre Badmas     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     CLAY POT     Tunji Moronfoye     Asa     Memunat Monsuma     Kemi Adeosun     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Code Of Conduct     Hakeem Idris     Bisi Oyeleke     Tsado Manman     Ramadhan     Micheal Imoudu     Aisha Gobir     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Sodiya     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Abatemi-Usman     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Bayer AG     Shade Omoniyi     T And K FOODS     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     John Olobayo     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Ohoro Of Shao    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Salary     Oba Abdulraheem     General Hospital     Salihu S. Yaru     Offa Grammer School     Baruten     Kale Belgore     Sunday Otokiti     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Ayinde Oki     Abubakar Baba     Daud Adeshola     Abatemi Usman     Sa\'adu Salahu     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Sango-UITH Road     Paul Odama     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Trader Moni     Marufat Oladosu     Women For Change And Development Initiative     REO CAKES     Obayomi Azeez     Raimi Iyanda     Idi-Ape     College Of Education     Umar Danladi Shero     Noah Yusuf     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Sadiq Umar     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Igbaja     Akeem Lawal     Rotimi Atere     Omotoso Musa     Garba Ado Sanni     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Roheemat Hammed     ER-KANG Mining     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Laduba     Madawaki     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Simeon Sayomi     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Bankole Omishore     Gbenga Awoyale     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Gbenga Adebayo     Agbarigidoma     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Students Union Government     Ayodele Shittu     Okin Biscuit     Abdulwahab Oba     YAKOOYO     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Risikat Lawal     Face Masks     Sunday Fagbemi     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Chikanda     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Yunus Lawal     Aliyu Sabi     Afonja     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak