•Cooking gas scarcity Over 20 million Nigerian households continue to rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking despite a decade of policy push, rising domestic LPG production and over $500 million in private investment, as affordability constraints and weak last-mile distribution stall the country’s clean cooking transition. Although more tha...
•Cooking gas The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas, has remained high despite assurances from marketers that the product will return to its pre-October price range of N950 to N1,000 per kilogram (kg). A visit to some gas stations in Lagos shows that the product was sold yesterday at between […]
Prices of cooking gas have surged to an all-time high in Lagos, forcing households and small businesses to cut back as federal authorities order a clampdown on hoarders. Across the city today, a kilogramme of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) sold for between N2,500 and N3,000 a sharp rise from the N1,000 recorded in August, reports […]
•Queue at Cooking Gas Depot Nigerians have expressed concern over another hike in the price of cooking gas, with a kilogram now selling for as high as ₦2,000 in some parts of the country. According to gas marketers, the increase has little to do with any official price adjustment. The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum […]
•Cooking gas scarcity Despite the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reporting a drop in the average cost of refilling a 5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from N8,243.79 in July to N6,404.02 in August 2025, market survey reveals a sharp surge in retail prices, with a kilogram now selling between N1,800 and N3,500 across […]...
The price of refilling a 12.5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas has increased by 34.6 percent on a Week-on-Week, WoW basis, to N17,500 this week, from N12,750 the previous week. Meanwhile, checks by our correspondent confirmed that the price of 1kg currently retails at N1,350, N1,400 and N1,500 dependin...
•House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has waded into the increase in the pump price of petroleum products. Moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Aliyu Madaki and sponsored by 111 members of the house, the house called for the immediate reversal of the price increase in petrol and cooking gas, reports Channels TV. The […...
•Cooking with firewood Nigerians, especially at the grassroots, have been urged not to resort to the use of firewood as a result of the economic hardship and recent hike in the process of cooking gas. The warning came from researchers and climate change advocates at a programme held in Abuja yesterday to discuss ‘Maximising energy […]...
•Cooking gas depot As Nigerians struggle with the high cost of petrol, the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, also known as cooking gas, has also increased to N1,500/kg. But the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NIPCO Plc, Suresh Kumar, said the Dangote refinery and other domestic refineries would bring down the price of cooking gas,...
The federal government has announced the provision of new tax reliefs for deep offshore oil and gas production to boost investments in the sector. It also announced that the importation of key energy products and infrastructure, including diesel, feed gas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, electric vehicles, Liquefied Natural Ga...

