Cooking gas price hits N1700 per kilogram in Nigeria

The terms of liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, besides known arsenic cooking gas, has continued to fluctuate successful caller weeks.

A marketplace survey by DAILY POST connected Saturday indicated that LPG prices ranged betwixt N1,300 and N1,500 per kilogram astatine filling stations successful Abuja and its environs.

DAILY POST observed that the terms scope applied to retail outlets operated by AA Rano, Ranoil, MRS filling stations successful Abuja.

However, different micro-LPG retail outlets successful Abuja dispensed the merchandise astatine prices ranging betwixt N1,600 and N1,700 per kilogram.

DAILY POST reports that weeks ago, cooking state prices had dropped to arsenic debased arsenic N1,200 per kilogram earlier the caller increase.

Speaking connected the fluctuation successful LPG prices, Lawal Taofeek, spokesperson for the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company, NIPCO, attributed the concern to volatility successful planetary petroleum merchandise prices.

“It is owed to fluctuations successful planetary vigor prices,” helium told DAILY POST successful an interrogation connected Saturday.

Meanwhile, LPG prices had eased successful August 2026 aft the Dangote Refinery and depot owners reduced their prices.

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