Nigerians in urban areas may have returned to the most affordable cooking fuels – charcoal and firewood, due to the increase in the price of cooking gas. Charcoal and firewood were used by mostly the locals and people living in semi-urban areas before the advent of cooking gas, reports Vanguard. However, when cooking gas came […]
•Jollof Rice The rising food inflation rate has increased the average cost of cooking a pot of jollof rice in Nigeria from N20,274 in June to N21,300 in September, reflecting a 5.1% increase. A report tagged ‘Crisis On The Menu: The SBM Jollof Index Q3, 2024′, said the prices of key ingredients such as tomatoes […]
•Chef Smith A Ghanaian chef, Ebenezer Smith, popularly known as Millennium Chef Smith, has been arrested and detained at the La Police Station for forging a Guinness World Record for marathon cooking. Smith yesterday presented a certificate confirming himself as the new world record holder for the 820-hour 25-minute cook-a-thon, which started ...
Some gas dealers and FCT residents have decried the surge in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), known as cooking gas, calling on the federal government to wade into the issue. The dealers and residents yesterday in Abuja expressed dissatisfaction over the constant rise in the price of the product and its attendant effects, […]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that the average retail price for refilling a 5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) increased by 3.55 percent on a month-on-month basis to N5,139.25 in January 2024 from N4,962.87 recorded in December 2023. The NBS report said that on a year-on-year basis, the price increased...
•Cooking gas cylinders A newly released report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the price of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) otherwise known as cooking gas increased by 12 per cent from N4,589 in one year. The report titled ‘Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch (January 2024)’, said while the price […]...
•A queue at a gas refilling station in Abuja Nigerians in some parts of the country have resorted to using charcoal as the cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, otherwise known as cooking gas, has continued to skyrocket. This is just as the cost of charcoal has also risen owing to high demand, with some people […]
•New Lagos CP A yet-to-be identified husband allegedly murdered his wife in the Olota area of the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos over her failure to cook his meal last Thursday. It was learnt that trouble started when the husband, who was said to have returned from work, discovered that the wife only prepared […]
•Cooking gas depot Scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas also known as cooking gas has hit Lagos and some other states in the country. The other affected states, according to findings by our correspondents are: Katsina, Sokoto, Delta, Kaduna and Kano. The rise in price of the commodity has been noticed since late last month, causing […]
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