The average retail price for refilling a 5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) decreased by 22.32 per cent on a month-on-month basis from N8,243.79 recorded in July 2025 to N6,404.02 in August 2025.

On a year-on-year basis, this represents a 0.40 per cent decrease from N6,430.02 in August 2024.

Additionally, the average retail price for refilling a 12.5kg Cooking Gas decreased by 21.42 per cent on a month-on-month basis from N20,609.48 in July 2025 to N16,195.07 in August 2025. However, on a year-on-year basis, it rose by 4.13 per cent from N15,552.56 in August 2024.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics data, Katsina state recorded the highest average price for refilling a 5kg Cooking Gas with N6,945.21, followed by Taraba with N6,893.12 and Rivers with N6,886.49.

Conversely, Delta recorded the lowest price with N5,657.50, followed by Bauchi and Borno with N5,721.75 and N6,070.56, respectively.

In terms of zones, the North-West recorded the highest average retail price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Cooking Gas with N6,473.63, followed by the North-East with N6,465.63, while the South-South recorded the lowest with N6,331.29.

For the 12.5kg cylinder, Yobe recorded the highest average retail price with N16,887.42, followed by Adamawa with N16,872.40 and Ebonyi with N16,859.17. The lowest average price was recorded in Benue with N15,102.50.

The NBS also reported that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate eased for the fifth consecutive month, dropping to 20.12% in August 2025 from 21.88% recorded in July 2025.

The food inflation rate in August 2025 was 21.87% on a year-on-year basis, 15.65 percentage points lower compared to the rate recorded in August 2024, which was at 37.52%. The significant decline in the annual food inflation figure is technically due to the change in the base year.