Retail outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and MRS were closed on Monday as several other filling stations raised their petrol pump prices for the second time in less than a week.
DAILY POST reports that NNPCL and MRS outlets in major parts of Abuja were out of petrol supply as of Monday night.
The development comes as DAILY POST gathered that Ranoil, Empire and other petroleum products marketers within the nation’s capital further increased their pump prices by between N55 and N60 to between N1,275 and N1,280 per litre at the close of business on Monday.
This means that, in less than a week, major filling station outlets have adjusted their petrol pump prices by at least N100 per litre.
DAILY POST reports that depot owners have also raised their ex-depot prices to between N1,249 and N1,270 per litre as of Monday night.
The surge in fuel prices comes barely a week after Dangote Refinery resumed the sale of refined petroleum products in dollars.
The 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery pegged its petrol gantry price at $0.779 per litre, diesel at $1.087 per litre, and aviation fuel at $0.942 per litre.
While the refinery insisted that the gantry prices remained unchanged, some petroleum marketers claimed that the plant had suspended product loading.
Two managers at MRS filling stations in Abuja told DAILY POST, on condition of anonymity, that they had been out of petrol since Thursday last week.
Fuel attendants at NNPCL retail outlets also confirmed that their stations
