PHOTOS: Traffic congestion as petrol queues resurface in Lagos

Queues for petrol have resurfaced in parts of Lagos as fuel stations are packed with vehicles waiting to fill their tanks.

The long queues stretched to road networks on Monday, TheCable observed — causing gridlock in some areas in the state.

Consumers were also seen queuing at the premises of some closed filling stations in desperate hopes of accessing the product.

There were long queues at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and Nationwide fuel stations in the Ogba axis of Lagos, respectively.

The situation was the same at two NNPC filling stations, as well as NIPCO at Ago Palace Way.

In Festac, queues for petrol pervaded Tecno Oil, Peridot, and Mobil filling stations at First Avenue, Link Road, and 23 Road, respectively.

Also, on the Badagry expressway, vehicles heaped around the Mobil filling station at First Gate.

On the other hand, fuel stations including MRS in Festac, Mobil, and As Sallam at Aguda did not sell the product.

Nigerians have been grappling with access to petrol for daily business and personal needs.

The current scarcity has led to an increase in the cost of transportation, which has doubled on some routes in Lagos.

The NNPC, on April 25, had attributed the scarcity to supply disruptions emanating from logistic challenges.

Speaking to TheCable, Abubakar Maigandi, national president of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), said the queues are expected to disappear soon as the NNPC has overcome issues which caused supply shortfall.

“As the NNPC said, they had logistic issues, which caused a minor delay at that time but now, they have started loading,” he said.

“We have instructed all our members to go and load the product so that they would carry it and discharge it in their filling stations.

“Some have started carrying it to their various filling stations.

“We expect the queues to disappear any moment from now as long as the loading becomes steady.”

He said all fuel stations will “be wetted in no time”.

Here are pictures of the situation at the filling stations visited.