By correspondent in Abuja.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has decried the new fuel price regime announced on Wednesday by the new government of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja.
The NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, who briefed journalists at Labour House, Abuja, on Wednesday, on the issue said the congress would not accept the price which was increased from N184 per liter of fuel to over N500 per liter.
Ajaero noted that the fixing of price was not what the government could do unilaterally, adding that the decision to announce a new pump price regime was against the interest of social dialogue.
Meanwhile, transporters in. lokoja, Kogi state, have reacted sharply to an increase in the pump price of fuel by jerking up their fares by at least, 80 percent or more, depending on the distance between the power of beginning between the passenger and commercial driver or commercial motorcyclists popularly known as okada rider.
Many people who spoke with our correspondent expressed dismay the multiplier effect of the astronomical increase in the price of fuel would affect goods and services in the markets and commercial areas in the state capital and its environs.
Fuel was being sold at N540 per liter in all the filling stations our correspondent visited Wednesday evening.
Some commuters, who spoke with our correspondent said the increase in the fuel pump price would eat deeper into their multiple financial commitments of the families, called on the federal government to take a second look at the policy to bring the price to an affordable level for the poor masses in the country.
" This increase in fuel will not only affect the economic life of most Nigerians negatively, it will also hit their social interaction and human relationship, especially with the rural populace.
"When we cannot longer visit our families in the rural areas because of the high cost of transportation or fuel our cars to travel home, this will affect the family bond or relationship , " Mal. Isa Abdulkarim, a native of Okene who resident of Lokoja told our correspondent in an interview in Lokoja on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in the template released by NNPC limited, the new price regime per liter, across the states, effective from today, 31 May 2023, the follows:
Lagos: ₦488; FCT Abuja: ₦537; Abia: ₦515; Adamawa: ₦550; Akwa Ibom: ₦515; Anambra: ₦520; Bauchi: ₦550; Bayelsa: ₦515; Benue: ₦537; Borno: ₦557; Cross River: ₦511; Delta: ₦511; Edo: ₦511;
Ekiti: ₦500; Enugu: ₦520; Ebonyi: ₦520; Gombe: ₦550; Imo: ₦515; Jigawa: ₦540; Kaduna: ₦540; Kano: ₦540; Katsina: ₦540; Kebbi: ₦545; Kogi: ₦537; Kwara: ₦515; Nasarawa: N537;
Niger: ₦537; Ogun: ₦500; Ondo: ₦500; Osun: ₦500 per liter; Oyo: ₦500! Plateau: ₦537; Rivers: ₦511; Sokoto: ₦540; Taraba: ₦550! Yobe: ₦557! and Zamfara: ₦540 preliterate.
Edited by Dada Ah med.
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