{"id":699523,"date":"2026-07-19T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699523\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:56:11","slug":"cooking-gas-imports-jump-by-1400-as-prices-reduce-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699523\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking gas imports jump by 1400% as prices reduce in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas, imported into Nigeria jumped sharply by 1,400 percent to 1.5 kilotonnes per day in June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Fact Sheet for June released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The report showed that Nigeria\u2019s daily consumption of LPG rose by 24 percent in June to 5.1 KT\/d from 4.1 KT\/d recorded the previous Monday.<\/p>\n<p>NMDPRA\u2019s data indicated that of the 5.1 KT\/d daily LPG consumption in June, domestic production stood at 3.6 KT\/d, while imports were 1.5 KT\/d.<\/p>\n<p>This means that in the period under review, LPG imports rose sharply to address cooking gas scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the LPG price surged to over N2,000 per kilogram from around N900 and N1,200 before settling between N1,500 and N1,700 per kilogram depending on the location in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>    You may like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas, imported into Nigeria jumped sharply by 1,400 percent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,232336,1294,8720,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cooking-gas","tag-economy","tag-nigeria","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}