Fuel price hike: FCT residents lament transport fare surge

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, person raised concerns implicit rising transport fares pursuing the caller summation successful petrol prices crossed the country.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), petrol antecedently sold betwixt N835 and N875 per litre successful the FCT is present priced betwixt N1,200 and N1,350.

The summation has prompted commercialized conveyance operators to rise transport fares by astir 100 per cent.

Commuters told NAN that fares person been adjusted astir instantly pursuing the substance terms hike, raising fears of further cost-of-living pressures.

Mrs. Ngozi Okeke, a civilian servant successful Garki, said the fare from Nyanya to the metropolis centre roseate sharply wrong days of the petrol terms adjustment.

“Last week, I paid N800 to work, but contiguous it was N1,000. It whitethorn look small, but implicit a week, it adds up,” she explained.

Theresa Godspower said she present pays N700 from Nyanya to the Federal Secretariat, up from the erstwhile N500.

Similarly, Mr. Musa Abdullahi reported paying N1,200 from Masaka to the metropolis centre, compared with N700 before.

Mr. Godwin Ameh added that fares from Lugbe to Wuse person risen from N800 to N1,000, with immoderate drivers charging arsenic overmuch arsenic N1,200. Public servant Mr. Amos Badifu noted that transport fare hikes often pb to higher nutrient prices.

“Whenever substance prices spell up, transporters summation fares,...