Fuel scarcity has forced most of Commercial vehicles and Motorcyclists known as Okada riders off Ilorin road,the Kwara State capital.

Peoples daily Correspondent observed that on Thursday morning,most of school children,teachers,civil servants were forced to trekked to their various offices as a result of scarcity of vehicles on the roads.

It was learnt that most of the commercial vehicles were on queues at various filling stations to fill their tanks.

At few filling stations visited along Asa Dam roads,New Yidi road,Muritala Muhammed,Sango areas and Fate roads,Petroleum were sold to motorists at N100 per litre while at NNPC mega station,motorists have to lobby before they could the product at N87 per litre.

Though taxi drivers have not increased their fare,but most of Commercial Motorcyclists have seized the opportunity to charge high fare.

Recall, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced on Wednesday it has taken practical steps to eliminate the noticeable fuel queues in some major cities in the Northern axis caused by tales of an impending fuel scarcity.

The Corporation in a release stated that within the last 48 hours petrol products truck-out to most major cities across the country especially in the Northern part of the country has been increase considerably to accommodate some noticeable shock in the system as a result of the growing panic demand for petroleum products in the affected cities.

"We can confirm that an additional daily supply of 306 trucks of PMS which is the equivalent of over 10 million litres of petrol has been injected to provide extra daily supply to Kano, Minna, Suleja/Abuja, Gusau, Katsina as well as Kaduna," the NNPC stated.

The NNPC also noted that similar steps have been taken to consolidate the prevailing stable fuel supply situation in the Gombe, Bauchi, Jos, Yola and Maiduguri axis.

The Corporation advised members of the public to refrain from panic purchase of petroleum products noting that there is enough products in store to satisfy demand.