The price of kerosene used by several families have jumped to N800 per litre just as the market is beginning to adjust to the newly increased petrol and gas prices.

Market survey by The PUNCH on Tuesday showed that one litre of cooking kerosene, sold for N700 last week, now sells for between N800 and N850 in urban parts of Lagos State, while the price has hit as high as N1000 per litre in suburb areas at filling stations.

In Ghana, the price of a litre of cooking kerosene currently sells for GHS 12.044 (N585) per litre.

Unlike petrol, kerosene is a deregulated product- meaning prices are determined by market forces.

“It’s a deregulated market. It is also a function of the dollar to naira rate and the crude price at the international market. Since cooking kerosene is deregulated, prices can go up, it can also come down,” National Operations Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Mike Osatuyi told The PUNCH.

As of June, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, had reported an 88 per cent rise in prices of cooking kerosene and Liquefied Petroleum Gas within in one year.

According to the NBS report on “National Household Kerosene Price Watch,” the price of cooking kerosene went up by 86.94 per cent in one year.


The report also said that the average retail price per litre of household kerosene, HHK, paid by consumers in May 2022 increased by 15.21 per cent on a month-on-month basis from N589.82 in April 2022 to N679.54 in May 2022.

The state profile analysis showed that the highest average price per litre in May 2022 was recorded in Enugu with N868.75, followed by Ebonyi with N861.11 and Imo with N801.67. On the other hand, the lowest price was recorded in Bayelsa with N558.06, followed by Yobe with N601.39, and Nasarawa with N603.33.

In addition, the South-East recorded the highest average retail price per litre of household kerosene with N773.09, followed by the South-West with N738.19, and the North-Central with N668.78, while the North-East reported the lowest with N632.06.

An energy expert, Bala Zakka, while speaking in an exclusive chat with our correspondent, attributed the sharp increase in the price of the products to Nigeria’s continued inability to refine petroleum products for local consumption.

Executive Secretary, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers’ Association of Nigeria, DAPPMAN, Olufemi Adewole, told The PUNCH in an interview that the reason behind the continuous rise in prices of cooking kerosene was the exchange rate.

“Cooking kerosene is deregulated so prices depend on foreign exchange. A dollar is now N700 from N600 just last month, so prices will surely increase,” he said.

The Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, Clement Isong, could not be reached for his comment on the matter as at the time of filing this report.

Source: https://punchng.com/Kerosene-hits-over-N800/litre-Nigerians-face-hard-times

APC is evil..

Vote them out immediately and never again vote them in...

Nonsense people

This is fake news! We at lizardbbqgrillz buy our kerosene at 100 naira per litre all thanks to our darling daddy voucher and zombie discount.

The current prices are much more better than it was under GEJ that's why he was rightly voted out. I urge Nigerians to support Tinubu's ambition to continue where Buhari and APC stopped with their wonderful policies.

#A better Nigeria is all we want
#Sai Baba
#Sai Agbado
#Sai Cassava

Buhari and APC ve lost it all! No more direction

The way Nigerians will deal with APC will shock them so hard that some of the politicians will retire after 2023.

The last time Nigerian suffer like these was during abacha regime.
Assuming buhari is not the president many would still believe his the messiah. Thank God he won and performed very woefully that history will never forget his family.
He proved to us they had no plans on ground on how to move this country forward. Of late his nonchalant attitude makes me feel like his preparing is retirement home in another country not In Nigeria.

And one were will come online to say APC should remain in power of bring PDP back.
Isinku yin oni jere!
OBI for president
Never trust a bat
They see the world from upside down
Never trust an Atiku
He has nothing to offer

Nigerians like to suffer, some of them came to this life to serve Tinubu and his family in Lagos

No pity, they deserve the kind of leaders that they get

Buhari has scattered whatever is left of Nigeria

Hard time keh....

This one na rehearsal before the obidients go begin disobidient

Batifys go turn to Bats, and

Athiefkulate go chop kuli kuli morning, afternoon, and night.

Ok

#800? oh that's for none APC members/supporters

Next time show them your APC membership card ...they would sell for you at 165 naira a litre

Nigeria must be destroyed

History will never be kind to Buhari and the demonic party called APC.

The country has never been this worse, yet, some never-do-well and sufferheads still have the guts to talk about continuity in government.

This hardness will continue to increase exponentially up until End of February 2023. The very moment Obi is declared winner things will start to fall in place even before he is handed over to.