The queues for petrol in Abuja and other northern states have persisted despite the supply of about 1.824 billion litres of PMS by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
The NNPC also denied claims that it had reviewed the ex-coastal, ex-depot and the NNPC Retail prices for petrol downward.
In a series of tweets via its official Twitter handle, it described the claims as fake news.
Figures obtained by our correspondent from the company on Sunday showed that between February 14 and March 13, 2022, the oil firm released a total of 1.824 billion litres of petrol in a bid to keep the country wet with petrol.
However, the queues in filling stations, which were triggered by the imports of adulterated fuel in January this year, has refused to disappear.
Meanwhile, the activities of black marketers who sell petrol in jerry cans are currently normal in Abuja.
Some filling stations in the capital city now dispense PMS far above the approved price of N162-N165/litre.
A filling station in Kubwa, Khalif Civic Oil and Investment Limited, for instance, dispensed petrol at N280/litre on Sunday and still had queues of motorists, while the few major outlets that had products were greeted with massive queues.
