By Kamil Opeyemi
Motorists have woken up to a new rise in prices of petrol on Tuesday.
NPO Reports correspondent observed that many filling stations in Lagos adjusted their meter to N560 per litre in the early hours of the day.
Initially, there was confusion as many outlets of the NNPCL were shut to customers while they were forced to patronise other marketers who had adjusted their prices.
As at 9;30am on Tuesday, many NNPCL stations remained shut.
However, words went round that the NNPCL was about to announce an increase in the price of petrol.
In Abuja, many have adjusted to N617 per litre as motorists queued up at various filling stations.
A supervisor at a delivery logistics company in Lagos, Karia Logistics, Mr. Omolade, said his company riders had gone to the filling stations Tuesday morning to refill when he was told the cost of fuel per litre had gone up further.
“We were surprised. Nothing prepared us for another increase again. Just in less than two months? This will certainly affect cost of deliveries,” he said.
A businessman, Mr. Theophilus Madikun, who spoke with the NPO Reports Tuesday afternoon, said the government seems to be taking people for granted.
Speaking at a Mobil Filling station in Ogba, Lagos, Mr. Madikun said he had thought Nigerians had seen the worst with the June removal of the subsidy.
“This is unbearable and I think Nigerians are being forced to regret. How can you impose this kind of burden on the people?” he asked
President Bola Tinubu had, during his inaugural address on 29 May, announced the removal of fuel subsidy.
Although, this had been perfected by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Following the announcement, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) directed its outlets nationwide to sell fuel between N480 and N570 per litre, an almost 200 per cent increase from the initial price below N200.