*Says 55 depots nationwide stocked with products
OpeOluwani Akintayo
Lagos — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has said 50million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise called petrol, would arrive the shores of Nigeria every day from today.
The assurance came after reports of petroleum products price hike at depots and looming scarcity spread across the country.
Listing the depots that have adequate petroleum products stock, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, in a release, stated that 23 depots in Lagos, seven in Port Harcourt, 11 in Warri, six in Calabar and eight in Kaduna were fully stocked with white products.
According to him, motorists and other petroleum products consumers should not engage in panic buying, saying there is enough petroleum products stock in 55 depots across the country.
The release assured Nigerians of an eventful Easter period just as the just-ended Yuletide, even as it cautioned depot owners or terminal operators not to sell petrol above the official ex-depot price of N133.28k per litre.
The corporation also advised petroleum products marketers, not to sell the product above N145 per litre.
The release said the subsisting ex-depot petrol price of N133.28k per litre was consistent with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency’s, PPPRA template and should be adhered to.
He advised Nigerians to remain vigilant and volunteer information to the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, the Industry regulator or to any law enforcement agency around them, on any station which sells petrol beyond N145 per litre.
