{"id":61086,"date":"2025-02-12T04:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61086"},"modified":"2025-02-12T04:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:54:01","slug":"trouble-for-marketers-as-dangote-crashes-diesel-price-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/12\/trouble-for-marketers-as-dangote-crashes-diesel-price-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble for Marketers as Dangote Crashes Diesel Price Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diesel importers are facing tough competition as Dangote Petroleum Refinery has slashed the price of diesel to \u20a61,020 per litre, down from \u20a61,075 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third consecutive price reduction since the refinery began production in January 2024, bringing diesel costs down from an initial \u20a61,700 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The move provides significant relief for industries and manufacturers grappling with high operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Economic analyst Ken Ife revealed that the refinery absorbed over \u20a610 billion to stabilize fuel prices during the yuletide, further tightening the squeeze on independent marketers.<\/p>\n<p>With Dangote Refinery reshaping Nigeria\u2019s energy landscape, the dominance of diesel importers appears increasingly uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Diesel importers are facing tough competition as Dangote Petroleum Refinery has slashed the price of diesel to \u20a61,020 per litre, down from \u20a61,075 per litre. This marks the third consecutive price reduction since the refinery began production in January 2024, bringing diesel costs down from an initial \u20a61,700 per litre. The move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61088,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions\/61088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}