NNPC supplies 956.5million litres of fuel to end scarcity--{The Sun}

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stated that it has pumped additional 956, 501,315 litres of petrol, to the market, as part of efforts to restore normalcy to the fuel situation in the country.

In a statement issued yesterday, Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim, said the corporation currently has 24.4 days sufficiency of petrol.
“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 revealed.
He reassured Nigerians that the NNPC, as the nation’s supplier of last resort, was working round the clock to provide sufficient petroleum products  in order to mitigate the hardship encountered by motorists on fuel queues.
The NNPC spokesman urged motorists to avoid panic buying and assured that everything humanly possible was being done to restore normalcy to the supply of  petrol.
He called on marketers and other players in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry to join hands with the NNPC to provide enough petroleum product