Residents of Abuja have experienced their frustrations over the persistent scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, known as cooking gas, amid its nationwide price hike.

DAILY POST reports that in the past weeks, cooking gas prices have hit the rooftop, selling for N1,200 and N2,000 per kilogramme in Abuja, Lagos and other parts of the country.

Specifically, this means that 12.5 kilogrammes cost between N15,000 and N25,000 for Abuja residents in Kubwa, Lugbe, Dutse, Nyanya and its environs.

Accordingly, while filling stations like Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NIPCO and AYM Shafa Energy dispense cooking gas for N1,200 per kg, other marketing agents sell it for between N1,500 and N2,000 depending on the location in Abuja.

Meanwhile, DAILY POST correspondent who went round Abuja gathered that it is only a few gas filling stations that are dispensing the product as of Saturday, 18th October 2025.

Checks on LPG depot prices showed that only NAVGAS, Matrix, NIPCO, and Shafa Energy have cooking gas at N18,500 for 20 metric tonnes as of Sunday, 19th October 2025.

Speaking, Bello Abdullahi, a resident of Kubwa, said, “It is frustrating; on Saturday, I carried my cylinder looking for where to buy gas. I ended up buying at N2,000 per kg. I was told filling stations sell at N1200 per kg, but I didn’t find any in Kubwa,” he told DAILY POST.

Rita Nwagwu, a resident of Dutse, expressed frustration at the scarcity and price of cooking gas.

“Despite the high price of N2000 per kg in Dutse, most vendors are not selling. I had to use a bike on Friday looking for cooking gas but later bought it at Zone 6 at N2,000 per kg,” she told DAILY POST.

Lagos situation

Lagos residents had earlier lamented the cooking gas scarcity and price hike in the state.

Reason for cooking gas scarcity, price hike

DAILY POST reports that some stakeholders have blamed the strike last month by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association against Dangote Refinery, maintenance work at the Nigeria LNG Train 4 facility and the 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery’s entrance into the LPG market for the cooking gas scarcity and price hikes.

Earlier, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Bayo Ojulari, had blamed supply disruption due to the two-day strike by PENGASSAN against Dangote Refinery for LPG scarcity.

On his part, the president of the Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers, Oladapo Olatunbosun, said the cooking gas price hike and scarcity were artificial.

The Minister of Ekperikpe Ekpo, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), had promised to take action against marketers hoarding and inflating the price of cooking gas, but his vow has not come to fruition as Nigerians feel the pain of high prices and scarcity.