As part of its broader strategy, the government said it plans to convert between 125,000 and 200,000 vehicles to run on CNG by the end of this year.
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It took over seventy years to get addicted to petrol and diesel. It will certainly take more than seven months to be weaned off the addiction.
The Lagos State helmsman made the declaration on the administration in an article he wrote, titled: “Two years after, the indicators are positive.”
Less than two years later, the alternative is steadily paying-off, not only for motorists and transporters, but also for businesses and households.
President Bola Tinubu was represented at the ceremony by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Obongemem Ekperikpe Ekpo.
Private sector players such as Atlas Copco, a technology manufacturing company, are instrumental to this increased CNG capacity.
Farouk Ahmed, Authority Chief Executive, NMDPRA, said this on Thursday at the inaugural Petroleum Industry Stakeholders’ Forum.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who spoke during a courtesy visit by a delegation from the PCNGI, led by the Programme Director, Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, stated that the CNG initiative was critical for the country.
President Tinubu said this on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja when he met with the management team of NIPCO Plc.
Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Dawood O. Egbefo disclosed this during the flag off of the initiative.
The Presidential CNG Initiative is a component of the palliative intervention of the President Bola Tinubu administration, directed at providing succour to the masses.
The Minister of Transportation, Said Alkali, gave the position during a working visit to an International Liquified Natural Gas Energy Conversion, Transportation and Safety Company in Abuja on Tuesday.
President Tinubu’s directive is also in furtherance of Nigeria’s effort to transition to cleaner energy.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the centre was commissioned at the
The unveiling was done at the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT).
NITT Director-General (D-G), Dr Bayero Farah led the commissioning exercise.
We need to understand the different components of the gas market to have a good idea of where CNG sits.
Some oil and gas experts have appealed to the Federal Government to subsidise the cost of converting petrol or diesel vehicles to gas for Nigerians as means of palliative measures.
The resolution of the workers’ body was contained in a communique it issued at the end of its meeting on Thursday.
The organization also threatened to boycott patronage of the media over what it termed bias by media managers on the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Eastern Security Network.
Sylva made the disclosure while answering questions from newsmen at the rollout of the National Gas Expansion Programme in Abuja on Tuesday.
Sylva disclosed this at the inuaguration of the programme by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday.