Avoiding lower profits, transporters push rising diesel price to consumers

Avoiding lower profits, transporters push rising diesel cost to consumers

Automotive Gas Oil, popularly known as diesel is predominantly used in trains, boats, barges and especially trucks that help transport most products consumed in Nigeria.

The upsurge in the price of crude oil, on account of the Ukraine-Russia crisis, which has in turn led to an increase in diesel price in Nigeria is putting transporters and haulage operators at a loss. The alternative is increasing costs of haulage, which some are already doing, and end users having

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