Presidency on Tuesday in Abuja summoned critical stakeholders in the nation’s oil sector and the leadership of security agencies in the country to end the scarcity of petrol in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Jan. 1, during a nationwide broadcast, expressed sadness over the unnecessary hardships inflicted on Nigerians during the Christmas and New Year celebrations following acute petrol scarcity across the country. He attributed the hardships to the activities of a few but heartless individuals working within the nation’s oil and gas sector. Buhari, however, reiterated the determination of his administration to get to the root of the persistent petrol scarcity, and ensure that whichever groups were behind this manipulated blackmail would be prevented from doing so again. Baru also on Friday vowed that Nigerians would not go into 2018 with the scarcity of petroleum products.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2018 15:45 UTC