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- The national government's Decade of Gas Project has received a boost from the BUA radical to assistance Nigerians modulation to cleaner energy
- The national curate for petroleum resources announced that 5 cardinal Nigerian households volition get escaped LPG cylinders implicit the adjacent 5 years
- The authorities is besides acceptable to committee 150 state stations crossed the state earlier the extremity of 2025
Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon, a writer with Legit.ng, has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful concern reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.
In actualising the imaginativeness to modulation Nigeria to cleaner energy, the national authorities has said that it volition beryllium distributing 5 cardinal Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders crossed Nigeria earlier 2030.
This is portion of the LPG peneetration programme and would assistance Nigerians astatine the grassroots entree cleanable energy, and volition beryllium sponsored by the BUA group.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, made this announcement portion flagging disconnected the North West Zone signifier of the grassroots LPG Peneetration Programme successful Sokoto.
Source: UGC
Ekpo disclosed that the programme has been successfully launched successful the North East, South South, South West, and the FCT Abuja.
He thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for supporting the programme, and revealed that the extremity is to person 1 cardinal Nigerian households to follow cleaner and safer vigor for their cooking by giving them LPG cylinders.
Why FG wants to administer LPG cylinders
Ekpo stated:
“This programme isn’t conscionable astir gas—it’s astir health, opportunity, and biology responsibility.”The curate explained that it would assistance Nigeria trim indoor aerial contamination and deforestation, Channels News reports.
He added that with this inaugural the authorities volition make jobs for women and younker on the LPG worth chain.
Ekpo said that section manufacturers and distributors would payment from the initiative, and commended the Coordinator of the Decade of Gas task for his strategical leadership.
He besides thanked the BUA Group for sponsoring the organisation of LPG cylinders to the underserved communities successful Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the national government's Decade of Gas project faced large challenges arsenic scarcity deed Lagos, Abuja and different cities crossed Nigeria.
The outgo of refilling LPG cylinders increases
The National Bureau of Statistics, successful its latest Price Watch report, disclosed that the outgo of refilling Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders, besides known arsenic cooking gas, accrued successful April 2025.
According to the bureau, the terms for refilling a 5kg cylinder of LPG roseate by 7.69% month-on-month, reaching N7,885.60 from N7,322.49 recorded successful March 2025.
Similarly, the mean retail terms for refilling a 12.5kg LPG cylinder roseate by 9.82% month-on-month to N20,268.06, up from N18,456.24 successful March 2025.
Source: UGC
Imo, Delta, Rivers, and Ebonyi fertile among the states wherever cooking state prices are highest successful Nigeria.
Cooking state prices clang successful Lagos, Abuja.
In related news, the terms of liquefied earthy state (LPG) has crashed successful Lagos, Abuja and parts of Nigerian cities.
Legit.ng surveyed large LPG depots, and the findings revealed that the price of cooking state crashed pursuing the removal of import work connected accessories by the Nigerian authorities and the strengthening of the naira.
Findings showed that a 12.5kg cylinder refill, which costs N13,125, present sells for N12,500, portion a 6kg cylinder present sells for N6,000 from N6,300, and a 3kg cylinder sells for N3,000 from N3,150.
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Source: Legit.ng
