Wednesday, October 09, 2024 - Transportation costs are set to skyrocket in the Federal Capital Territory following the hike in the price of petrol by some stations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in Abuja on Wednesday.
The stations of the national oil company
have raised the retail price of petrol to N1,030 from N897 per litre, our
correspondent observed across multiple NNPCL stations in the FCT.
The new price, the second increase in one
month, represents a 14.8 per cent or N133 rise.
At the NNPCL mega station located in Central
Area, a customer, who spoke to PUNCH Online, said the product was sold at
N1,030.
The station did not display its prices on
either the signboard or the pump meter, leaving customers unaware of the cost
of fuel. Instead, the only information they received was through verbal
communication from the fuel attendants.
“I am very angry right now. I entered this
station thinking their price would be better. It was only after I had wasted
time in the queue that I was informed by the fuel attendant that the price had
risen to N1,030,” said the customer, who did not give his name.
However, checks by our correspondent at
independent marketers’ stations, including Conoil and Total Energies, opposite
the NNPCL headquarters, showed the product was sold at N926, but with long
queues.
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