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Nigerians have dumped the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited retail outlets over high prices of premium motor spirits.

A DAILY POST correspondent who went round major NNPCL retail outlets in Abuja observed low patronage by motorists in the nation’s capital, Abuja.

This was also the case for NNPCL retail outlets along Kubwa Expressway and those in Wuse Zone 4 and 6, which dispense fuel at N910 per litre.

Musa Abdullahi, a motorist in Abuja, said he preferred to buy at other filling stations with fuel prices below N910 per litre.

Reacting to the development, the spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Ukadike, said commuters prefer to patronise filling stations with competitive prices is why patronage dropped in NNPCL.

“The disparity in prices in filling stations is due to the deregulation of the downstream sector. Filling stations now compete not only because of their brand but also their prices. Before now NNPCL filling stations had queues because of their prices but the reverse is the case today,” he told DAILY POST exclusively.

DAILY POST reports that after Dangote Refinery announced a fresh petrol price template last week, partners and markets such as MRS, AP Ardova, Optima, Bova, and others dropped their fuel price by 15 to N895 per litre from N910.

DAILY POST reports other petrol marketers, such as Salbas and AA Rano in Abuja, had reduced their petrol price from N910 per litre to N900 as of Tuesday. Similarly, others, fuel marketers previously dispensing fuel at N917 per litre in Abuja, have reduced to N910 to remain attractive to patronage.

However, NNPCL retail outlets had to hold on to 910 litres. The development comes as NNPCL Saturday shut down its Port Harcourt Refinery for maintenance.

https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/28/nigerians-dump-nnpcl-filling-stations-over-petrol-price/

Nlfpmod

The reason they were reluctant to feed Dangote crude. Dangote is a force of nature.

Dangote Dangote Dangote still de find money.
Just in case we have forgotten.
Average cost of petrol in Nigeria over the last 5 years:
June 2021. N165
June 2022. N175
June. 2023. N 545
June. 2024. N 770
June. 2025. N 900

NNPCL IS JUST FRAUD
DANGOTE OPENING THEIR ANUS

Na so nah. Everybody is checking the price board before filling their tank

[color=#1986BC] Soon enough Fuel Stations would be vying over themselves for consumers with raffle draws, bonanzas like in the olden days..[/color]

There are several reports that Dangote singlehandedly stopped Nigeria from being the biggest importer of refined petroleum products in Africa.

If you must criticise him, you must be reasonable! Despite his shortcomings, Dangote is a blessing to this country and Africa.

I'm still buying from there (NNPCL) though...I was buying #880, but yesterday it was reduced and sold #870 per litre.

Thank God for Dangote

Fuel should come down to 500 nai

Tables really do turn!
Thanks to Dangote and Tinubu for dismantling the existing faulty system

Even if NNPC is selling the cheapest fuel I will never buy from them cuz I am convinced that NNPC don't mean well for Nigeria. Know this and know peace

That's good for them, greediness everywhere

Anything APC touches....

U know that their station in total garden and Agodi aaa, that is why they don't display prices on that digital baurd anymore.
infect any fueling station that doesn't on and display it price, I no dey enter there.

Bentacur007:
NNPCL IS JUST FRAUD
DANGOTE OPENING THEIR ANUS

NNPCL petrol station pumps are fraud too. Not just the price alone.

T

no time

This is market forces @ work

Bf na nnpc be odogwu, now levels don change

Either you conform or they weed u out

Na dangote do this one

NNPCL going the NITEL way all we needed is just a sound minded leader who will turn NNPCL to a regular like NCC and stop them from being a major player

Under this present Administration. NNPC is a scam .

Inspirer1:
I'm still buying from there (NNPCL) though...I was buying #880, but yesterday it was reduced and sold #870 per litre.

Okay so you mean for me to save N100 I will need to buy up to N10,000 fuel first? 🤔

I have never seen NNPC station in Aba.

dre11:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/28/nigerians-dump-nnpcl-filling-stations-over-petrol-price/

Nlfpmod

There’s nothing to be happy about here.
All this 2 naira difference is not what was promised.

9jaBloke:
Dangote Dangote Dangote still de find money.
Just in case we have forgotten.
Average cost of petrol in Nigeria over the last 5 years:
June 2021. N165
June 2022. N175
June. 2023. N 545
June. 2024. N 770
June. 2025. N 900

Leave that matter,Mr Man,as 5- yrs in Nigeria-Economy na real big deal!
Move forward ⏩ and build an Economic Dependent Nation,not the Past one on- Imports Dependent - where All -Our FOREX Money ( Foreign Exchange) was Corruptly disappeared into.
-But Now,Dangote has built a Refinery - that our Own Federal and States Couldn't do same for Nigerian Youths and the Masses - for a better Nigeria-.
-NNPC and it's Subsidiaries Are Fraud,since it's Creation.
-Their Prices supposed to be Lowered than that of DANGOTE Refinery( a Private one for that matter )- but Corruption has finished them,as they don't have any good Plans for the Masses.
Very Shameful Indeed.

Very good. APC is next.

9jaBloke:
Dangote Dangote Dangote still de find money.
Just in case we have forgotten.
Average cost of petrol in Nigeria over the last 5 years:
June 2021. N165
June 2022. N175
June. 2023. N 545
June. 2024. N 770
June. 2025. N 900

Yeah, and by August 2022, debt was eating 90% of government revenue, largely because of the cost of keeping fuel below 200 naira per liter since 1973-2022.

You don't have to supprot this useless apc government to realize that unless there was a massive improvement in our government revenue by over 100% in one month, subsidy was not sustainable as at 2022.

All I know is, we were warned as early as 1992, but we did not listen.

SmartPolician:
There are several reports that Dangote singlehandedly stopped Nigeria from being the biggest importer of refined petroleum products in Africa.

If you must criticise him, you must be reasonable! Despite his shortcomings, Dangote is a blessing to this country and Africa.

All thanks to Emefiele his friend, the former CBN Governor.

Sibrah:
The reason they were reluctant to feed Dangote crude. Dangote is a force of nature.

Nigerians too like oppressors

Too expensive and volatile.