Nigeria begins 24-hour supply to end week-long fuel shortage
Motorist in Nigeria queue to buy fuel following a discovery of contaminated fuel in supply in filling stations across the country. Fuel queues has emerged in Nigeria's major cities blamed on unsafe quantity of methanol in petrol imported into the country and resulting in traffic gridlock in different parts of the country as people engage in panic buying of petrol to stockpile the product.
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What you need to know:
The fuel shortage which started last week in the commercial city of Lagos and administrative capital Abuja has caused long queues with few petrol stations selling the product
