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Coming weeks after President Bola Tinubu said there would no longer be increase in pump price of PMS and days after NNPC’s Huub Stokman took over as Chairman of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria , some marketers told The Guardian yesterday that the state oil firm is now subsidising through its access to foreign exchange.
The addition of freight costs, lightering costs , distribution margin, ancillary costs by Nigerian Midstream Downstream Regulatory Authority , Nigerian Port Authority and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency as well as marketers’ margin stands at about N90 to N105. When the current pump price is compared with other deregulated products in the country, diesel and kerosene are selling between N800 and N900 per litre. The price of kerosene/jet fuel at the international market as of last month of August is $1,036.60 per metric tonne, which was almost the same as PMS. Diesel at the international level traded lower during the period at $952.85 per metric tonne.
“We are in trouble. There is a need for the government to come into this matter urgently, otherwise we will have a problem. Definitely the price of PMS will go up as much as the dollar price goes up. If you are exchanging $1 for N950, it will go up.”