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Fuel Price: Expert Predicts Worse Inflation Indices, Tougher Times Ahead

As Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to a new 17-year high of 22.79 percent in June 2023, experts have forecasted worse indices in months ahead with the latest fuel hike. NAIJA NEWS reports.Information Guide Nigeria

Naija News reported on Tuesday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited (NNPCL) announced a new hike in the pump price of petrol.


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This price hike, announced on Tuesday, comes in the wake of President Bola Tinubu’s removal of fuel subsidy on May 29th.

The NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mele Kyari, attributed the recent rise in petrol pump price from N540 to N617 per litre to market forces.JAMB Result

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Reacting to the development, the President Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Laoye Jaiyeole said the situation already leads to higher inflation.

He told The Punch that, “It is already leading to inflation. It is a tough time, no doubt, but what is critical is for us to begin to act quickly. Let me tell you something, in 2015, before the first inflation in 2016, we saw this coming, and at NESG, we gave them three scenarios.

“We asked that there are difficult decisions the nation needs to take, and we didn’t take them, we ran away from them; maybe if we had taken those decisions, it may not be as bad as this. Now the tough choices are being taken, and I must confess they are tough.

“Giving succor to those that are less privileged is one, but you know we cannot continue to share money, we have to boost production. By boosting production, it means we are going to ask ourselves what we are going to do about food and the productive sector. How do we ensure that we have electricity?”NYSC Portal

According to him,  local refinery would be the best way to wade pressure on the exchange rate.

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