Queues for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) commonly called petrol, have returned to some filling stations in parts of Abuja.
This is even as hawkers of petrol, called black market, have also returned to the streets, selling petrol to desperate motorists in gallons, at unregulated prices.
The development follows the three-day warning strike embarked on by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN).
The Suleja Depot, Niger state branch of the union in a notice if strike on Monday, had said the strike was to protest the continued indebtedness of the federal government to oil marketers with respect to the payment of fuel transportation costs, also known as bridging claims amounting to N50.5 billion.
Branch chairman, Yahaya Alhassan, said marketers had stopped the supply of products from the depot, as the union had prevented trucks from moving PMS to the northern states.
This newspaper had reported earlier that petrol scarcity was imminent in Abuja, Niger, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kano and other northern states as a result of the strike.
Checks in Abuja, on Tuesday, showed that the majority of filling stations on the Outer Northern Expressway had shut their pumps and closed their gates, while motorists queued outside.
The situation was the same in Gwarinpa and Kado-Gwarinpa bypass, on Tuesday afternoon.
