Nigerians are now paying more for petrol despite the official price still fixed at N162.50 and N165 per litre.
Independent marketers, who started implementing a new price regime of between N170 to N190 at the weekend, insisted yesterday that it would be difficult for them to sell at the official pump price.
Besides, scarcity of the product resurfaced in Lagos, Akure, Ado-Ekiti, Abeokuta, Jos, among other towns in the Southwest.
The situation in Abuja worsened at the weekend with long queues at the filling stations where petrol is sold.
In Lagos yesterday, many independent stations were shut, the few that were dispensing recorded long queues.
