Price of 5kg cooking gas up 22.15% in one year – NBS

The average price of refilling a five-kilogramme cylinder of cooking gas rose by 22.15 per cent year on year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.

The bureau said this in its “Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch” for April 2023 released on Friday.

The NBS said the average retail price for refilling a 5 kg cylinder of cooking gas increased by 0.69 per cent on a month-on-month basis from N4,610.48 recorded in March 2023 to N4,642.27 in April 2023.

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