FG to Nigerians: Fuel pump price remains N165, avoid panic buying
The Federal Government says the fixed pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, remains N165 per litre as stipulated in the petroleum product pricing template.
The government also advised Nigerians against panic buying PMS, also known as petrol, saying that the country currently had over 2 billion litres of PMS in various depots
This was made known by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd., and the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company after visiting jetties in Apapa, Lagos, on Tuesday.
The depots visited by the top officials of the agencies were NIPCO Depot and TotalEnergies Depot
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, had on Monday advised its members to adjust the pump price of PMS to a minimum of N180 per litre.
The marketers had said the move was necessitated by the increment in the ex-depot price of PMS by some private depots where they were buying the product from.
However, Ugbugo Ukoha, Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage and Retail Infrastructure, NMDPRA, maintained that petrol was a regulated product and urged marketers to comply with the pricing template
Mr Ukoha said the conflict between Russia and Ukraine had led to an increment in the cost of Automotive Gas Oil (diesel), which was a critical product used in transporting petroleum products from the depots to the retail outlets.
He said: “So, when we observed that this poses a big challenge in the movement of other products, we made the representation to the Minister of State for Petroleum and Mr President graciously approved that the freight rate for trucks be increased.
“There’s a N10 addition, which we will apply to the different routes to enable trucks to move to docks easily with less burden
