Osun, Abia & Benue Paid Highest for Petrol in January – NBS

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Petrol price, Petrol price hikes

The sale of petrol, known as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) rose to 11.1 percent January 2018 amidst its acute scarcity, PMS Price watch of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) confirmed today.

NBS in its report listed Osun, Abia & Benue as paying N228.89, N227.50 and N223.33 respectively to procure the product. They paid highest, while Zamfara, Gombe and Kogi experienced the lowest average price of premium motor spirit (petrol) paying N159.12, N157.73 and N152.83 respectively.

According to the NBS, the Average price paid by consumers for premium motor spirit (petrol) increased by 28.4% year-on-year and 11.1% month-on-month to N 190.9 in January 2018 from N 171.8 in December 2017.

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