…As 12.5Kg Refill Costs N21,000
Users of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking gas, in Nigeria paid higher in April this year as the average retail price for refilling a 5kg cylinder increased to N7,885.60, representing 7.69% month-on-month, from N7,322.49 in March 2025.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS’) ‘Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch’ published on Monday, the average price for refilling a 12.5kg cylinder of the commodity surged to N20,268.06 in April, indicating 9.82% increase from N18,456.24 that consumers paid to refill the same volume of cooking gas in the preceding month.
The data showed that when analyzed on a year-on-year, the 5kg refill price surged by 20.92%, up from N6,521.58 in April 2024 just as the 12.5kg cylinder increased by 29.61% year-on-year, up from N15,637.74 in April 2024.
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According to the statistics agency’s report, a state-by-state profile of the commodity’s prices reflected that Rivers State recorded the highest average retail price for refilling a 5kg cylinder in the month under review at N9,103.82, followed by Ebonyi (N8,867.24) and Akwa Ibom (N8,655.59).
However, the lowest prices or refilling 5kg cylinder were recorded in Niger (N7,006.15), Plateau (N7,014.87), and Kebbi (N7,032.11).
A further analysis of the NBS’ report on zonal basis indicated that the users of cooking gas in South-South zone paid the highest average price at N8,447.78 to refill 5kg cylinder, followed by the South-East at N8,351.29 while North-Central zone consumers refilled at the lowest at N7,432.22.
For the 12.5kg cylinder refilling, Imo State consumers paid the highest average price at N22,938.73 in April this year, followed by users in Delta (N22,831.70) and Rivers State (N22,759.56). The lowest average prices for refilling the 12.5kg cylinder were recorded in Kebbi (N18,080.27), Nasarawa (N18,106.85), and Kwara (N18,173.67).
The data showed that zonally, the South-South users paid the highest average price of N21,536.12 to refill 12.5kg, closely followed by the South-East (N21,528.23) while North-Central zone buyers refilled at the lowest average of N19,330.55.
