Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA
The Petroleum Products
Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), has increased the price of household
kerosene from N50 to N83.
This was contained in
its products pric
webapex.net ing template, released on Sunday in Abuja.
It stated that the N83
per litre price applied only to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
outlets.
The template also showed
that at N83, the Federal Government will be making a gain of N10.72 on every
litr
westernmagazine.org e, thus ending the era of subsidy when the price was pegged at N50 per
litre.
It further puts the
expected open market price, which is the landing cost plus total margins, at
N72.28 per litre.
The expected open market
price is the prevailing open market rate for the product in Nigeria, after
taking certa
ysin.org in costs into consideration.
Giving a breakdown of
the price, the PPPRA template put the landing cost of the product at N57.98
per litre, while the total margin due middlemen was put at N14.30.
The retailers’ margin
was put at N5 per litre, transporters at N3.05 per litre, dealers at N1.95 per
litre.
It further put the
bridging fund at N5.85 per litre, marine transport average at N0.15 and
Administrative Charges – N0.15.
It stated that the
official ex-depot price, which depot owners would sell to marketers, is N68.70
per litre.
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