Reports gathered revealed that the tragic incident, which happened late Wednesday, has left residents in the area in fear.
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Protesters said that the owners shut down their stations without giving any reasons or explanations to the public.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the motorists that NAN correspondent met at the filing station on Wednesday morning were busy washing their faces with water.
Korodo, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, said most of the depots in Lagos are dried up.
NAN reports that the costs of various hairdos at most salons are usually high ahead of Christmas celebration but the hike this year was astronomical.
A NAN correspondent, who monitored the situation, reports that many petrol stations did not have petrol, while the few ones that had sold above the official pump price of N145 per litre.
The DPR spokesperson, Seidu Mohammed, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
It said the Corporation was working with all downstream industry stakeholders to eliminate the noticeable artificially-induced fuel queues in some fuel stations
NAN reports that long queues for fuel resurfaced in Abuja on Monday, one week after the city experienced petrol scarcity, as hundreds of motorists besieged the few filling stations that sold the product
Ahmed, who assured Nigerians of petroleum products availability, warned that any marketer who violated this directive risked being sanctioned
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers recently gave a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet their demands or face industrial action
This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Dr. Omar Ibrahim, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC
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
A correspondent the News Agency of Nigeria who went round some parts of the territory in Abuja on Monday, reports that worst hit are civil servants and traders who waited endlessly at their various bus stops without much hope of getting vehicles
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by the acting General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr. Omar Ibrahim
The state government had recently directed all filling stations to sell the commodity, saying that it had received a report about supply of fuel to the stations from the depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
The assurance was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Chinwe Agulefo, the Acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs of the NNPC