Fresh Fuel Price hike Looms as Nigeria mulls 20% Freighting Cost surge

  The Nigerian Government has revealed plans to increase cost of transporting (freighting) Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol by 20 percent. The surge, which will see the price jumping from N7.51 to N9.11 per litre in the pricing template of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), will, if scaled through, lead to hike in the retail price of the product across the country. The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) management Board, Ahmed Bobboi, who stated this, maintained that this development was a measure to…

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