The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said he would invite regulatory agencies and producers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly known as cooking gas to address the current soaring prices of the product in the country.
This was just as the federal government through the Decade of Gas Secretariat and some partners distributed 250 fully-filled LPG cylinders to underserved households in Lagos State.
The exercise was in line with the government’s annual target of converting 250,000 homes to clean cooking gas in all the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria by 2030.
Speaking to journalists yesterday, in Lagos on the sidelines of the kick off the LPG Grassroots Penetration and Cylinder Distribution Programme for the South-West Zone, Ekpo confirmed that the price of cooking gas had gone up, saying he would invite the stakeholders to resolve it.
Currently, the price per kilogramme of LPG has skyrocketed, with a 12.5-kg cylinder now being filled with as high as N16,200, up from about N13,500 sold last month.
