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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has fixed the gantry price of aviation fuel at ₦1,820 per litre, a move aimed at enhancing transparency in the sector.

This development comes at a time when airline operators have raised concerns over the high cost of the product and its impact on the aviation industry.

Despite advisory guidance from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), oil marketers have continued to sell aviation fuel to airlines at ₦2,230 per litre and above, deepening concerns across Nigeria’s aviation sector.

The NMDPRA had earlier indicated that aviation fuel should sell within a price band of ₦1,760 to ₦1,988 per litre in Lagos and about ₦2,037 per litre in Abuja, based on prevailing market fundamentals.

The guidance followed a series of stakeholder engagements involving aviation operators, oil marketers, depot owners, and other industry players aimed at resolving recent disputes over pricing.

However, market checks by Vanguard show that actual transactions remain significantly above the regulator’s benchmark, with airlines still paying as much as ₦2,230 per litre.

In an interview with Vanguard, Olatide Jeremiah, Chief Executive Officer of Petroleumprice.ng, said:
“There is a lack of transparency in jet fuel pricing. Dangote Refinery should, as a matter of urgency, publish its daily jet fuel gantry prices. This would erode abnormal margins by middlemen and help curb artificial hikes in jet fuel prices that are threatening to cripple businesses in Nigeria’s aviation sector.”

Also speaking, the spokesperson for United Nigeria Airlines, Chibuike Uloka, said: “It’s not a controlled market; it’s a free market. So, the NMDPRA cannot fix prices. Rather, based on its findings and market assessments—such as landing cost and other factors—it is only suggesting what the price should be.

“But marketers are still selling at their own rates, and no one has been able to call them to order. This issue goes beyond United Nigeria Airlines; it affects all members of the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), not just a single airline.

“If we are to speak on how this affects us, we can say—as Ibom Air earlier noted—that the cost of fuel per operation rose from ₦2.9 million in January to ₦7.6 million. For operators like us that use Airbus aircraft, with higher fuel capacity and longer endurance, the cost is even double that figure.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/04/just-in-dangote-refinery-fixes-jet-fuel-price

Okay. I think say na pms sha

May God help us in this country

This is bad and unsafe that one man will have power to determine the market price of critical fuels in Nigeria.

This is nothing short of leadership failure.

How about bicycle fuel? As we no come get jet and car?

Dangote dangote dangote!!!
This was not the promise


Is your refinery a curse or a blessing to Nigeria and Nigerians?

Now we are all in the mercy of dangote.
So sad the way things are going?

Soon dango will be detecting how we knac our girlfriends.

Still not down as expected....everything that goes up in Nigeria always refuse to obey the law of gravity

Kerosene ₦1,820, omorr nawa oOoOO 😥

I know this will happen, with the appointment of Rabiu Umar, former Sales and Marketing Director of Dangote Group as the new NMDPRA boss.
He don talked to his former boss.

Tenses:
This is bad and unsafe that one man will have power to determine the market price of critical fuels in Nigeria.

This is nothing short of leadership failure.

His private business, government no longer interested in subsidy

Tired talking about Dangote. You all know what you did. Just accept the repercussions.

Pms is now 1330 as at today, its going higher and higher

yomalex:
Okay. I think say na pms sha

yomalex:
Okay. I think say na pms sha

Do u think the increment will stop soon. I don't think so.
This one is tasting the ground.
The people that suppose to complain are share holder expecting return of their investment.

Cant government call dangote to a meeting and sell crude to him at a discount so it can bring down prices temporarily pending when the Iran issue is resolved. This will not include any subsidy payments. Why is the government just abandoning the masses to their fate, fuel id now 1,440 per liter and everyone is quite.

Tenses:
This is bad and unsafe that one man will have power to determine the market price of critical fuels in Nigeria.

This is nothing short of leadership failure.

Leadership failure that a private company started refining business!

Do you know how many license were issued for construction of refinery’s in Nigeria? So one man capitalizing on it is now the problem of Nigeria?

Delve into the business and compete with him. Competition is good for the market.

Una better form group make you dey do direct order from Dangote, since marketers no want make una rest, make everyone do what is fine by him, if marketers no see buyer again, dem go move to other trade or change system

tnerro1:
Cant government call dangote to a meeting and sell crude to him at a discount so it can bring down prices temporarily pending when the Iran issue is resolved. This will not include any subsidy payments. Why is the government just abandoning the masses to their fate, fuel id now 1,440 per liter and everyone is quite.

Govt wont do this for two major reasons, 1, OPEC membership.
2, govt will earn less and they are not willing to go that route

AMI3:
Now we are all in the mercy of dangote.
So sad the way things are going?

Soon dango will be detecting how we knac our girlfriends.

His Dangote stopping you from opening yours?

Y’all be blaming a businessman for the woes of a country!

Why not criticize the government of why it’s taking them decades to get 4 refinery’s at optimum capacity?

Leave the man alone! He is strictly in business!

Fear catch me immediately. That I no get problem, I no dey enter plane,

Axis313:
I know this will happen, with the appointment of Rabiu Umar, former Sales and Marketing Director of Dangote Group as the new NMDPRA boss.
He don talked to his former boss.

This is not a case of price change, but price transparency.
Airline operators wanted to go on strike today because marketers were reaping them, as no one knows the actual cost marketers are getting the product, this prompted this price disclosure, just like the case with pms and diesel

OlujobaSamuel:
Govt wont do this for two major reasons, 1, OPEC membership.
2, govt will earn less and they are not willing to go that route

The most important function of government is security and welfare. Can it be said about this government?

HacheNoire:
Leadership failure that a private company started refining business!

Do you know how many license were issued for construction of refinery’s in Nigeria? So one man capitalizing on it is now the problem of Nigeria?

Delve into the business and compete with him. Competition is good for the market.

Why is it that when Leadership Failure is mentioned tinubu's attack dogs will start attacking?

tnerro1:
The most important function of government is security and welfare. Can it be said about this government?

I only answered the question on why no govt will do a crude price discount sales to any company.
I'm not discussing performance

May fire and brimstone fall upon the Tinubu led APC government for impoverishing the citizens of this great country

Tenses:
Why is it that when Leadership Failure is mentioned tinubu's attack dogs will start attacking?

I thought you were going to expatiate on how leadership failed.

Leadership failed because a man built a refinery! Make it make sense!

Like you are the only market he got! His business is opened to the world! Y’all can resume importation again!

This is not far cry from N2000per litre

Reference:
Tired talking about Dangote. You all know what you did. Just accept the repercussions.

.. dangote said they NNPC and federal government does not supply him sufficient crude oil for his refinery...that he imports crude oil ..so the importation of the crude oil makes the price of fuel and avaition fuel to be expensive

DANGOTE DANGOTE DANGOTE




OWNS





250 MILLIONS OF NIGERIANS AT HAND

Tenses:
This is bad and unsafe that one man will have power to determine the market price of critical fuels in Nigeria.

This is nothing short of leadership failure.

do you understand this post at all? Why can't you blame the marketers?

Any price Dangote give you people take and thank him, he is the only lion to roar in the industry. Don't blame him blame your ineffective government

Why? Im building my own refinery too

Once its completed, ill sell everything to everyone in Nigeria at N1 per gallon.

But the refinery Im building is in my dreams o, not reality yet. But my dreams always come to past, so just believe.