NNPC pumps additional 956.6 m litres of petrol to nation

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said it has pumped additional 956. 6 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, into the market.
This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr. Omar Ibrahim
It said this was part of efforts to restore normalcy to the fuel situation in the country.
The statement said the Corporation currently had 24.4 days sufficiency of PMS.
“The nation has 956,501,315 million litres of petrol, which is equivalent to 24.4 days sufficiency and this will continue to increase to over 30 days sufficiency before the end of March,” Ibrahim said.
The statement reassured Nigerians that the NNPC, as the nation’s supplier of last resort, was working round the clock to wet the nation with petroleum products.
This, according to the statement, is to mitigate the hardship encountered by motorists on fuel queues.
The NNPC called on motorists to avoid panic buying, assuring them that everything humanly possible is being done to restore sanity to the supply of petrol.
It called on marketers and other players in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry to join hands with the NNPC to wet the market with the product.