By Camillus Eboh

ABUJA, July 8 (Reuters) - Gasoline queues that occurred in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, last week were due to disruptions to offshore fuel transfers and flooding hindering deliveries, state oil firm NNPC Ltd said on Monday.

President Bola Tinubu's government last year opened gasoline imports to private companies but foreign currency shortages and a cap on the price of petrol has meant NNPC remains the sole importer.

NNPC spokesperson Femi Soneye said that thunderstorms hampered ship-to-ship transfers of gasoline between large vessels and smaller distribution ships, and flooding along trucking routes restricted deliveries from coastal depots to the capital, which is hundreds of kilometres inland.

Soneye did not provide details on when normal operations would resume.

(Writing by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo)