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Petrol queues continue, despite predicted end to fuel crisis

There is no let-up in the petrol queues throughout Lagos, despite an announcement by the authorities that the fuel crisis will end soon, a resident told IRIN today. According to AFP, an adviser to military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar said the fuel shortage would end as imports continued and collapsed refineries were repaired. “The black market price will continue to fall until the black market is snuffed out in about two or three months’ time,” the adviser Aret Adams said in a speech delivered yesterday by an aide to the Franco-Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Fifty percent of Nigeria’s fuel consumption is reportedly in Lagos.

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