Find out 10 cheapest, most expensive states to buy cooking gas in Nigeria

• New information from the NBS has revealed that the mean outgo of refilling a 5kg and 12.5kg cooking state cylinder
• The bureau showed that Nigerians are paying compared to the aforesaid play successful the erstwhile period and year
• There are 10 states wherever residents bargain less, and successful different states, the mean terms is higher than the nationalist average

Legit.ng journalist Dave Ibemere has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business journalism, with in-depth cognition of the Nigerian economy, stocks, and wide marketplace trends.

The National Bureau of Statistics, successful its latest Price Watch report, revealed that the outgo of refilling Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders, besides known arsenic cooking gas, has accrued again.

According to the bureau, the terms for refilling a 5kg cylinder of LPG roseate by 7.69% month-on-month, reaching N7,885.60 from N7,322.49 recorded successful March 2025.

Cooking state prices is connected the rise Photo credit: Bloomberg/contributor
Source: UGC

The April price, erstwhile compared year-on-year, marks a important 20.92% summation from the N6,521.58 that Nigerians paid successful April 2024.

Similarly, the average retail terms for refilling a 12.5kg LPG cylinder roseate by 9.82% month-on-month to N20,268.06, up from N18,456.24 successful March 2025.

Year-on-year, this represents a 29.61% emergence from April 2024's N15,637.74, Punch reports.

How the prices were captured?

NBS explained that fieldwork is done solely by implicit 700 NBS Staff successful each the States of the federation, supported by supervisors who interior and outer observers monitor.

It noted:

"Gas Prices are collected crossed each the 774 section governments crossed each States and the FCT from implicit 10,000 respondents and outlets and the estimates bespeak the weights derived from estimates of household expenditures connected state and the existent prices households bought antithetic KG of gases.The average prices are reported for each authorities and the country.The NBS audit squad subsequently conducts randomly selected verification of prices recorded."

10 astir costly states(12.5kg)

• Imo: N22,938.73
• Delta: N22,831.70
• Rivers: N22,759.56
• Ebonyi: N22,168.09k
• Taraba: N22,010.27
• Kano: N21,799.90
• Akwa Ibom: N21,638.98
• Bayelsa: N21,476.51
• Bauchi: N21,171.81
• Cross River: N21,105.61

Nigerians wage to navigator arsenic LPG prices rise Photo credit: Nurphoto
Source: Getty Images

10 cheapest states(12.5kg)

• Taraba: N18,080.27
• Nasarawa: N18,106.85
• Kwara: N18,173.67
• Katsina: N18,193.81
• Ekiti: N18,249.80
• Yobe: N18,488.67
• Jigawa: N18,671.04
• Lagos: N18,944.06
• Ondo: N19,143.81
• Abuja (FCT): N19,248.61

Cooking state prices summation astatine depots

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the terms of cooking state for dealers had increased, including astatine immoderate NNPC filling stations.

Plant owners looking to assistance 20 metric tons of cooking state connected Monday, June 23, from NIPCO and Ardova depots were expected to wage N18.5 cardinal — an summation of N500,000 compared to the erstwhile week.

Dangote is selling 20MT astatine N19 million.

RAINOIL successful Lagos has besides raised its terms by N40 to N930 per kg for marketers.

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Source: Legit.ng