Petroleum Product Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria PETROAN has attributed the hike in prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG also known as cooking gas in Nigeria to the current price in the international market, activities of middle and political factors.

Rivers State Chairman of PETROAN, Francis Dimkpa in an interview in Port Harcourt on Monday said LPG is traded at international price in Nigeria, despite the fact Nigeria produces part of the LPG consumed in the country. Dimkpa disclosed that some gas plants operators do not have access to LPG from Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, thereby hiking the prices.

In his word “it very painful and difficult to understand how a country like ours that is producing LPG otherwise known as cooking gas is going through such a hike in price of domestic gas like this. But I think it is connected with international price of LPG. I do not know whether it is clear to all of us that LPG in this country is not traded at domestic price, it is traded at the international price. Most times NLNG carries this product to Lagos before even coming to Port Harcourt”.

“We also import LGP to an extent. The business of LPG is shrouded in a lot of diplomatic and political issues where registered LPG plants do not have, so to say, direct access to buy from NLNG. There are a lot of political off-takers in place, making the price of LPG secondary before it gets to the primary consumers.

Dimkpa also called on the government to step in and regularize the price of LPG, adding that retail outlets owners are willing to buy products directly from NLNG.

SOURCE: https://dailypost.ng/2021/08/23/reasons-behind-hike-in-price-of-cooking-gas-revealed/

We'll soon go back to cutting woods from the bush to cook. Because charcoal and chopped wood would already be expensive too.
Sai barber

Nigeria government is in for anything to inflict hardship and suffering on the masses.

Everything is upside down after the lockdown

Life is becoming unbearable everyday!

Grace001:
Nigeria government is in for anything to inflict hardship and suffering on the masses.

sai Baba

We are back to cutting trees and that negates our earlier stand on sustainable development
Going back to our vomit!
May bae this an area government should subsidize

NLNG should begin to franchise LPG outlets the way NNPC does so that Nigerians can benefit from prices that will not include the middle men.

This is my candid advise to Nigerians. We must not repeat the previous mistake we made again in 2023. They are already trying to package an overage sick Tinubu and present him in 2023. We need an intellectual digital prof like Osibanjo in 2023 and not those analogue leaders.

Buhari is the major reason. Anything outside Buhari should not be mentioned

Plea

How Nigerians manage to buy gas at a very high price when we actually flare it is still one of the greatest Miseries of all time ....

So much for a darling daddy.

Darling daddy indeed.
Where manna Dey to come defend this as usual.I’ve never seen such a jobless someone

Govt. is the reason for the hike in everything....rubbish
Na to go get coal in Enugu tomorow

I don tired oo

A kg of cooking gas is #450 where I live. How much is it in your neighborhood?

Do you know the Good part, and co BMC crew are also buying at the same price. Hehehehehe

Suffering and smiling. Your darling daddy is working.

It has always been so. Everything is politicized.

Nigeria is like a farmer whose children are dying of hunger

Hmmmm

Buhari is really working

The reason is CHANGE that's all

Jestin:
This is my candid advise to Nigerians. We must not repeat the previous mistake we made again in 2023. They are already trying to package an overage sick Tinubu and present him in 2023. We need an intellectual digital prof like Osibanjo in 2023 and not those analogue leaders.

ignorant, if you have opportunity to sit with Osibanjo he will lecture you about Tinubu ideology and capacity to lead us to promise land.

Jestin:
This is my candid advise to Nigerians. We must not repeat the previous mistake we made again in 2023. They are already trying to package an overage sick Tinubu and present him in 2023. We need an intellectual digital prof like Osibanjo in 2023 and not those analogue leaders.

Anybody who is part of this government is not worthy to even contest in the next election.

Blatant liars