Fuel Scarcity to end Soon: Marketers to Start Lifting in a Few Hours.

Queue in Nigeria filling station

The latest news reaching us is that the current fuel scarcity in Nigeria is finally nearing an end as oil marketers in the country have agreed to call off their strike.

The Federal Government and the marketers had a meeting and the decision was reached on Monday, May 25, 2015, after a meeting.

The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream and downstream) in a bid to resolve the crisis called for the meeting.

The marketers which includes, Conoil, Forte Oil, MRS, Total and Mobil, according to their Chairman of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Obafemi Olawore have agreed to begin lifting and distributing product to end the scarcity.

This comes after the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Ubah ordered his trucks to deliver 13 million litres of fuel around the country to end the hardship being faced by Nigerians and also, on Sunday, May 24, beckoned on his fellow marketers to follow suit in the spirit of patriotism.