New Fuel Price: NLC, NUJ, Others Kick As Anger, Frustration Spread Across Nigeria

VAM News Update

Nigerians were jolted on Tuesday following a further increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had in his inaugural address on May 29, 2023, announced an end to the fuel subsidy regime.

It is coming at a time the citizens are still battling the effects of the May 29 increment which saw the pump price of petrol jerk up from about N197 per litre to over N500.

Meanwhile, report indicates that there is no uniform price of the commodity across the country. In Ogun State for instance, while many filling stations are not dispensing, those who opened for business are selling for N650 per litre.

An Ondo state civil servant, Yemisi Oladapo, who also expressed his disappointment over the development, said, “We had hoped for a change, a departure from the policies that burdened us under the Buhari administration.

“We were not given prior notice of this wicked act. They just woke up and suddenly increased the price.”

A resident of Enugu, the Coal City State, Mr Samson Okoro said the government has pushed the citizens into avoidable suffering by putting the cart before the horse.