{"id":76112,"date":"2025-10-06T02:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76112"},"modified":"2025-10-06T02:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T02:20:30","slug":"fuel-queues-resurface-in-abuja-as-petrol-stations-run-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/06\/fuel-queues-resurface-in-abuja-as-petrol-stations-run-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Queues Resurface in Abuja as Petrol Stations Run Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long fuel queues have returned to Abuja for the first time since the Dangote Refinery began petrol supply in 2024, as a widespread shortage forces several filling stations to shut down operations.<\/p>\n<p>Across the city and its outskirts, only a few petrol stations were dispensing fuel, and those open were overwhelmed by long lines of motorists struggling to buy petrol.<\/p>\n<p>The scarcity follows a three-day industrial action by members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the development, Chief Chinedu Ukadike, Public Relations Officer of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), assured that the situation would normalize within days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just Abuja. Lagos was dry two days ago and so was the East. The shortage is a ripple effect of the PENGASSAN strike. Now that loading has resumed, normal distribution should return within two to three days. There is no cause for alarm,\u201d Ukadike said.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that the $20 billion Dangote Refinery now serves as the country\u2019s major source of petroleum products, supplying the NNPC Limited, depot owners, and independent marketers nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Long fuel queues have returned to Abuja for the first time since the Dangote Refinery began petrol supply in 2024, as a widespread shortage forces several filling stations to shut down operations. Across the city and its outskirts, only a few petrol stations were dispensing fuel, and those open were overwhelmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1756,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76114,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76112\/revisions\/76114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}