The Group Managing Director, of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mele Kyari, has assured Nigerians that the ongoing fuel shortage will ease next week.
Kyari said this in a video clip aired on Channels Television on Tuesday night.
However, he said he could not guarantee that queues at petrol stations would disappear, but added that there would be a significant improvement in the coming week.
He said: “Now over the next week I’m not saying you won’t have zero queues over the next week, no, because a number of things are out of our control and of course, market forces will determine some of those issues.
“But I believe we will see a substantial and relative easing in the next week compared to today.”
“I apologize for the situation on behalf of all of us in the oil and gas industry.”
Switch Nigeria reports that fuel shortages and scarcity of new and old naira notes have brought untold hardship to citizens and crippled economic activities across the country.
As a result, protests broke out in various states and cities across the federation, with citizens complaining about the twin shortages and their impact on their businesses and daily lives.
It would be recalled that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), also asked Nigerians on Friday to give him seven days to resolve the naira crisis, with two days left to complete the seven days requested by the President.
