Abstract:
Premium motor spirit without gain saying is a commodity which is inevitable to all and Nigeria as
a country have gained immensely from the proceeds generated from the sales of PMS. Also over
the years, Nigeria economy have experienced major international recognition as a result of this
God given resources but the citizenry still experienced major scarcity of PMS. The study therefore
assess distribution strategies of PMS in NNPC Ore Depot. In sampling of the opinion of the NNPC
executive officer and customers (marketers), the primary (questionnaire) and secondary ( relevant
literatures, journals, web-pages, textbooks and newspapers) methods were used, while their
responses were analyzed and used to test the hypothesis using Pearson correlation coefficient. The
result revealed that truck is the major means of distributing PMS to its numerous customers. Also,
there were many factors amidst low capacity utilization and refining activities at the nation’s
refineries, pipelines vandalization, large scale smuggling due to unfavourable economic product
at home and higher border prices with the neighbouring countries, low investment opportunities
in the sector, and corrupt practices by some members of the distribution chain among other
responsible for the ineffectiveness of the distribution strategies. The study recommends that
government should put necessarily actions in place to checkmate the malice of illegal diversion of
the premium motor spirit. The study concludes that these factors mentioned above be either
eliminated or reduced and stringent measures be adopted to act as deterrents to other corrupt
practices in the distribution chain.
