Dangote: MRS filling stations shut amid fresh fuel price increase

Several MRS filling stations in Abuja have been shut down for two days due to the unavailability of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS.

Two managers of MRS filling stations in Abuja, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the development to DAILY POST on Friday evening.

According to the managers, the outlets were closed because they had not received fuel supplies from Lagos.

“We have been without fuel since Thursday. No truck has supplied us from Lagos,” one of the filling station managers told DAILY POST.

Speaking on the development, the National President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, Billy Gillis-Harry, exclusively told DAILY POST that some filling stations might now be having difficulty accessing foreign exchange to procure refined petroleum products.

“The shutdown of some filling stations may be due to the dollarisation of the downstream oil sector. We will survive the situation,” he told DAILY POST.

This comes as the Dangote Refinery resumed sales of refined petroleum products in dollars.

The development follows the suspension of the naira-for-crude deal between the Nigerian government and the Dangote Refinery.

DAILY POST reports that both ex-depot and retail fuel prices rose on Thursday.

Depot owners raised ex-depot prices to as high as N1,225 per litre. Similarly, fuel prices increased by between N40 and N50 per litre to around N1,220 per litre from N1,175 per litre across some filling stations in Abuja and its environs.

However, fuel prices at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited retail outlets have remained unchanged at N1,155 per litre.

The latest domestic fuel price hike has pushed petrol retail prices to between N1,155 per litre and N1,220 per litre in Abuja and its environs.