Dangote: NNPCL, MRS outlets shut as Nigerian filling stations increase fuel price again

Retail outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and MRS were closed connected Monday arsenic respective different filling stations raised their petrol pump prices for the 2nd clip successful little than a week.

DAILY POST reports that NNPCL and MRS outlets successful large parts of Abuja were retired of petrol proviso arsenic of Monday night.

The improvement comes arsenic DAILY POST gathered that Ranoil, Empire and different petroleum products marketers wrong the nation’s superior further accrued their pump prices by betwixt N55 and N60 to betwixt N1,275 and N1,280 per litre astatine the adjacent of concern connected Monday.

This means that, successful little than a week, large filling presumption outlets person adjusted their petrol pump prices by astatine slightest N100 per litre.

DAILY POST reports that depot owners person besides raised their ex-depot prices to betwixt N1,249 and N1,270 per litre arsenic of Monday night.

The surge successful substance prices comes hardly a week aft Dangote Refinery resumed the merchantability of refined petroleum products successful dollars. 

The 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery pegged its petrol gantry terms astatine $0.779 per litre, diesel astatine $1.087 per litre, and aviation substance astatine $0.942 per litre. 

While the refinery insisted that the gantry prices remained unchanged, immoderate petroleum marketers claimed that the works had suspended merchandise loading.

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