electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-47d96f74

Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)

116 rows - 1 Africa country - 2024-2025 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Nigeria as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch
• Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
• Resource: PMS March 2025 Tables
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NGA	116	2024	2025	Nigeria

Indicators or Resource Contents

• premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-47d96f74 - Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-47d96f74
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	NGA
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Fuel March 2025
country_name	string	Country name.	Nigeria
year	Int64	Observation year.	2024
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	710.833333333333
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_state	string	Source dimension.	Abia
dimension_zone	string	Source dimension.	South East
dimension_average_price	string	Source dimension.	1331.59056666667
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	PMS March 2025 Tables
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	NGA-NBS-PMS
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-nada-157-1203
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/download/120
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-19T04:13:01Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-47d96f74")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NGA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_nigeria_premium_motor_spirit_petrol_price_watch_47d96f74_2025,
  title        = {Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/related-materials},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-47d96f74}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/download/1203