The pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, recorded mixed movements, with increases and decreases reported across Nigeria over the past week.
DAILY POST reports that gantry, ex-depot and retail petrol prices fluctuated at different times last week.
While Dangote Refinery’s gantry price stood at N1,350 per litre, some depot owners reduced their prices by between N5 and N6 per litre, bringing them to between N1,344 and N1,345 per litre.
Similarly, retail petrol prices recorded mixed movements, with some filling stations increasing their prices while others reduced them.
Currently, retail petrol prices in Abuja range between N1,370 and N1,420 per litre, depending on the filling station and its location within the Federal Capital Territory and its environs.
Recall that MRS filling stations raised their petrol prices to N1,409 per litre.
Other filling station operators in Nigeria also increased their pump prices.
https://dailypost.ng/2026/10/11/mrs-other-nigerian-filling-stations-increase-petrol-pump-price/
DAILY POST reports that some NNPCL filling stations had reduced their petrol prices to N1,370 per litre but later increased them to N1,405 per litre at the weekend.
https://dailypost.ng/2026/10/16/nnpcl-increases-petrol-price-amid-disputed-fuel-discount/
The price fluctuations at NNPCL filling stations occurred amid the Federal Government’s yet-to-be-implemented promise to fix petrol prices at N1,350 per litre.
Recall that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, through the Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele had announced a proposed fixed petrol price of N1,350 per litre at NNPCL filling stations.
Fuel price update in Nigeria weeks after Tinubu’s N1,350/litre announcement