The price of household kerosene has continued to increase as more Nigerians, especially in the suburbs, switch from cooking gas to kerosene, firewood and charcoal. As a result of high demand for kerosene, data from the country’s statistics bureau, NBS, said price of kerosene continues to soar as average price per litre paid by consumers for National Household Kerosene increased by 0.67% month-on-month and by 15.43% year-on-year to N400.01 in August 2021 from N397.34 in July 2021. According to the document, price of the commodity had increased rapidly with states such as Enugu, Ebonyi and Cross River paying the highest- N494.05, N489.17, and N487.50 respectively. The public was recently awashed with reports of cooking gas hitting its highest as a result of implementation of a 7.5 percent tax on imported cooking gas, scarcity of FOREX, and importation- about 70 percent of the gas consumed in Nigeria is imported.
Source: https://sweetcrudereports.com/gas-price-soar-nigerians-move-to-kerosene-firewood/