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The Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the prices of petrol,and cooking gas have
crashed across the country.
The
Corporation said its sustained strategic intervention in the efficient supply
and distribution of petroleum products led to the significant fall in the
prices of the products. A statement issued on Sunday, September 3, by the NNPC spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu,
said a national survey by oil and gas forum, NNPC’s weekly TV programme,
indicated that in the last few weeks, the price of petrol has fallen steadily
from N145 per litre to between N142 and N143 per litre in some stations across
the country.
Mr. Ughamadu
said the study showed that NNPC mega and affiliate stations across the country
are selling the product for N143 per litre, while the pump price range from
between N142 and N145 per litre in some major and independent marketers in
Lagos, Abuja, Sokoto, Enugu, Delta and other major cities. One of the respondents in the survey and a manager at an independent
fuel retail station in Abuja, Mohammed Abdullahi, said the station currently
sells petrol at N142 per litre in line with the prevailing market situation in
order to sustain the turnover of the business and to attract more motorists to
the station.
Another
independent marketer in Mosimi, Emeka Ikechukwu, said the going ex-depot prices
of PMS had dropped from N138 per litre in most depots to N133.28 in NNPC depots
and between N130 and N131 per litre in private depots.
“However, the situation is slightly different in Aba and Umuahia in Abia State
and Calabar in Cross River state where most independent fuel stations as well as
major marketers selling the product at N145 per litre. The survey also showed a similar trend of drop in price for cooking gas with
the average price for refilling 5kg cylinder at N2,215.96 from the former price
of N2,500.00. The study further revealed that states with the lowest average price for the
5kg LPG refill were Kaduna and Niger at N2,000; Kogi at N2,005.00; and Oyo at
N2,033.33.”
Mr. Ughamadu said the prices
of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking also crashed. “At the NNPC Mega and retail stations nationwide, a 12.5kg of cooking gas that
was sold for N4,500 a few months ago is now sold for N3,800 while other retail
outlets sell the same quantity for N4,000. “NNPC has sustained its interventions through sustained improvement in the
supply of the products and remodeling of distribution channels to address
sufficiency issues across the country,” he said.
According to him, the
NNPC has stepped up the resuscitation of some of its “critical pipelines and
depots” such as the Atlas Cove – Mosimi depot Pipeline, Port-Harcourt Refinery
– Aba depot Pipeline, Kaduna – Kano pipeline and the Kano depot which have enhanced
efficiency in products distribution.He said there were ongoing efforts to revamp and re-commission other critical
pipelines and depots nationwide, to further push down the prices of petroleum
products for the benefit of consumers.
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