The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that the Port Harcourt Refinery, has resumed the production of petrol after it was shut down some months back.

According to the Group General Manager, Public Affairs of the NNPC, Garuba Deen Muhammad, the refinery presently produces about five million litres of petrol per day ever since it began operations last week and the refinery in Kaduna is expected to begin operations in the coming week.

“Port Harcourt has been refining for quite a while now, from last week, between three and five million litres. We expect Kaduna refinery to begin any time soon and we also have vessels discharging fuel and so, all these combined measures will bring down the situation. When you have this kind of situation, people will naturally get agitated but people are getting calm now because they know the supply gap has now been bridged, and it is a question of distribution now,” he told This Day.

Muhammad added that the fuel scarcity situation in Lagos has almost returned to normal due to the fact that the motorists cooperated.

“There are some hitches here and there but improvement is what we are counting on and it is what we should be expecting,” he said.

Anita Fatunji