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Nigerians are now paying as much as N1,700 per kilogram for cooking gas, a situation that could trigger public anger against filling station owners, the Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) has warned.
A 20-metric-tonne truck of the product currently costs marketers between N25.2 million and N26.2 million, depending on location, the association said.
“It is sad and rather very pathetic to inform the general public that Nigerians have woken up to buy cooking gas, which should be a social item, at a prohibitive cost of over N1,500 per kilogram,” NALPGAM National President Edu Inyang said.
“We feel that if the situation is not immediately checked, citizens may rise against owners of gas filling stations,” he added.
Inyang appealed to the government for urgent intervention, warning that millions of households, food vendors and small businesses are now under severe pressure.
According to Inyang, persistent supply shortages, high depot prices, logistics bottlenecks and rising operational costs are driving the price surge.
The development is now threatening Nigeria’s clean energy drive, Inyang said, as many households are already falling back on firewood and charcoal.
He warned that failure to address the crisis could worsen food inflation, trigger job losses, cripple small LPG businesses and shake investor confidence.
