Nigeria Says It's Solving Issue That Led to Christmas Gas Queues
- Vice President visits filling stations on Christmas Eve
- Motorists in Kano say buying gas 50% higher than capped price
Nigeria's Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
Photographer: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images
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Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made a surprise Christmas Eve visit to petrol stations in the commercial hub Lagos, where motorists had been queuing for hours as the nation grappled with a fuel crisis.
The government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. are working to address the issue “as quickly as possible,” Osinbajo was cited as saying in a statement emailed by his office on Monday. “People have gone through a lot of pain and anguish in the past few days, and that is deeply regretted.”