Lagos (9News Nigeria) – Average Nigerians are groaning despairingly as the country’s energy crisis continues to bite harder amid fuel scarcity and lack of power supply.
Nigeria’s energy sector woes appear worsened as electricity generation, yesterday, dropped to 4, 227 megawatts, MW, from 4, 544.2MW, indicating a decrease of seven per cent due mainly to limited gas supply and other factors.
This comes against the backdrop of worsening supply shortages of the premium motor spirit(PMS), as long queues at the various petrol stations across the country is adversely affecting businesses and livelihood.
The long queues for petrol in major cities, especially in Lagos and Abuja have spilt over to worsen traffic situations, as the crisis defiles earlier directive of the Lagos State governor on disciplined fuel queues in the state.
This development has thrown more businesses and households into nightmares. As most businesses depend on these scarce commodities, prices of goods and services have continued to soar thereby making life more miserable to average Nigerians who have already borne too much.
The government is yet to unravel the complex circumstances on the part of the NNPC and the marketers that led to the fuel scarcity.
The NNPC had conducted an investigation and according to their report, it was revealed that there was a presence of Methanol in 4 PMS cargoes imported by MRS, Emadeb/Hyde/AY Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium, Oando, and Duke Oil.
They (the NNPC) further said that they were going to recall the affected commodities and then the scarcity will be over. It has been weeks since this report was issued, yet hope of an end to the fuel scarcity is one that has vanished into thin air as many gas stations are closed while those that are open were surrounded by empty jerricans and long queues of vehicles with empty tanks.
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