The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has increased the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol.
A market survey by DAILY POST on Tuesday showed that the majority of NNPCL retail outlets in Abuja and its environs had increased their petrol pump price to between N1,395 and N1,430 per litre.
This means that the state-owned oil firm adjusted its petrol price upward by between N50 and N80 per litre.
DAILY POST reports that the new prices have been implemented at NNPCL outlets in Airport Junction, Gwarinpa, Kubwa Expressway, Wuse Zone 4 and other parts of the nation’s capital and its environs.
This comes as MRS filling stations raised their petrol pump price to N1,395 per litre following Dangote Refinery’s gantry price increase to N1,265 per litre.
The upward fuel price review comes as Brent and West Texas Intermediate, WTI, crude prices rose to $107 and $103 per barrel, respectively, after Iran and the United States’ strikes took a devastating turn last week.
Recall that Iran struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline.