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Petrol Price Rose By 29.8% In November – NBS Reveals

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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed on Monday the average price of petrol rose to N202.48 per liter in November.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

The agency disclosed this in its latest price watch report released in Abuja.

The price for November, according to NBS, was 29.81 percent higher than the N167.60 Nigerians paid for the product in November last year.

It added that the average retail price increased by 3.68 percent from the N195.29 paid for petrol in October.

The increase in was expected given the fuel scarcity experience by Nigerians during the month.

The increase in fuel prices also added to the cost of living in Nigeria which reached another record high of 21.47 percent in November.

 

On a state-by-state basis, Kwara State had the highest average retail price for at N217.14 last month.

Enugu and Gombe States followed with N215.71 and N215.00 respectively.

On the other side, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, and Delta States had the lowest average retail prices at N189.06, 189.33, and 190.00 respectively.

Lastly, on a regional basis, the North-Central zone had the highest average retail price of N207.35, while the South-South had the lowest price of N194.58.

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