Thousands of travellers and residents of Lokoja, Kogi State capital are currently stranded as the city has been overrun by heavy flooding.

The Lokoja-Abuja road which connects the North and South has practically been cut off, thereby paralyzing economic activities, including food supply chain from the North to the South, and vis-a-vis.

The roughly 196 kilometres highway is one of the most critical roads in the country, being the major link between the North and South for the movement of people, goods through vehicular transportation.

The road is also very significant to the survival of the nation because it boosts economic activities in the country.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority has blamed the current fuel scarcity in Abuja and other surrounding states on the inability of fuel trucks to access Lokoja roads.