Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, has assured Nigerians that the lingering fuel scarcity will ease off next week.

In a video clip shown on Channels Television on Tuesday evening, Kyari said he can't not assure that the queues at the fuel stations would disappear, but added that there would be significant improvement in the next one week

Kyari said, “Now within the next one week, I’m not saying that you’re going to have zero queues within the next one week, no, because a number of things are out of our control, and of course the market forces will determine some of these issues.

“But I believe that we’re going to see substantial and relative ease compared to today in the next one week.

However, the fuel scarcity coupled with the scarcity of both the new and old naira notes have brought untold hardship on citizens, crippling economic activities across the country.

Due to this occurrences, protests have broken out in various states and cities across the federation, with citizens lamenting on the scarcity and its impact of their businesses and everyday lives.

However, President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had also made February 10 the deadline for the old note submission.