NNPC Direct marketers to sell kerosene at N150 per litre

Kerosene to be now sold at  ₦150 per litre, as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, has said.

The NNPC boss, who stated this during a courtesy

visit to the Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun

in Abeokuta, recently, called on other retailers 

Of the product  to emulate the NNPC mega stations and start selling the product at  ₦150 per litre, up from the ₦ 80 per litre. 

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He said: “We are committed to promoting the use

of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as an alternative choice for home cooking, which is also available at our NNPC retail stations.”

He also expressed the readiness of the NNPC to

complete the ongoing Escravos to Lagos Pipeline

System 2 (ELPS2) project in the last quarter of this

year to boost gas power in the country.

Baru said the 36-inch and 342-kilometre gas

pipeline project would double the capacity of the

existing ELPS, thereby improving gas supply to

Ogun and  it environment, adding that the recent

achievement of security agencies in safeguarding

the Atlas Cove to Mosimi System 2B pipeline would not have been possible without the support

of the host communities and state government.

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