Fuel shortage cripples Lagos

Long queues of vehicles piled up at petrol stations across Nigeria on Monday while commuters were left stranded at bus stops as a fuel shortage hit Africa's biggest oil producer. Petrol marketers and tanker drivers blamed the shortfall on a delay in the approval of oil import permits, and warned that the situation could take weeks to resolve. The situation has caused panic buying among motorists and attendants were doing a brisk trade in selling fuel in jerry-cans and plastic containers. Drivers waited in line for fuel in the financial hub Lagos over the weekend as well as in the capital Abuja, the southern oil city of Port Harcourt and Kano, the biggest city in the north, according to AFP.