The price of petrol has been reduced by the Federal Government on Tuesday night from N125/litre to N123.5/litre.
Current petrol price indicates a reduction of N1.5 on every litre of petrol purchased nationwide.
It announced the reduction through the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, after a whole day meeting with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector in Abuja.
Announcing the reduction, the Executive Secretary of the PMS pricing regulator, Abdulkadir Saidu, said, “PPPRA, in line with the government approval for a monthly review of “Premium motor Spirit pump price hereby announces guiding PMS pump price of N123.50 per litre.
“The guiding price which becomes effective 1st April 2020, shall apply at all retail outlets nationwide for the month of April 2020. PPPRA and other relevant regulatory agencies shall continue to monitor compliance to extant regulations for a sustainable downstream petroleum sector.”
It added, “Members of the public and all oil marketing companies are to be guided accordingly.”
