As motorists and other users of petrol struggled to get the product at filling stations in Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna and Nasarawa states as well as the Federal Capital Territory on Monday, it was gathered that new vessels conveying the product arrived Apapa in Lagos, The Punch reports.

Many filling stations were shut in the states, while the few stations that had the product recorded long queues of desperate motorists that stretched for kilometres and spilled onto the roads, thereby distorting the flow of traffic. Some of the stations that dispensed the product on Monday sold it above the official pump price of N145 per litre.

Also some of the private depots in Apapa, where many marketers get petroleum products from for distribution to other states, did not have petrol to load. A top official of a Lagos-based oil marketing company however said that two vessels had arrived Apapa and one of them started discharging on Sunday, with Aiteo and Nipco receiving petrol from it.

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