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Nigeria: Fuel Inflation Persists As Diesel Soars 86 Percent, Petrol Climbs 55 Percent, Kerosene Up 37 Percent in One Year

30 Jun 2026, 04:35 GMT

[This Day] Abuja -- Nigerians continued to contend with elevated energy costs in May as the prices of the country's three major fuels remained substantially higher than they were a year earlier, with diesel recording the sharpest annual increase of 86.4 per cent.