Fuel Crisis: Black Markets Spring Up in front of NNPC Station

The perennial fuel scarcity saw black marketers having a field day as they were seen, right in front of petrol stations and even in front of the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in the Central Area in Abuja, selling in plastic containers to motorists at a minimum of N200 per litre.

Even in petrol stations along the road to the offices of Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, the black marketers were boldly plying their trade, selling at exorbitant prices. At Mabushi, under the bridge, scores of black marketers have taken over the entire area, lining up their 25-litre, 30-litre and 50-litre gallons on the road.