Tinubu orders deployment of CNG amid fuel price hike

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the contiguous deployment of 100,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) conversion kits crossed Nigeria to assistance cushion the interaction of rising proscription costs triggered by the ongoing struggle successful the Middle East.

The directive was disclosed connected Tuesday by the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Initiative connected Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG), Ismaeel Ahmed, aft a gathering with the President astatine the Presidential Villa successful Abuja.

Ahmed explained that President Tinubu is intimately monitoring planetary developments and their implications for Nigeria’s vigor sector, peculiarly the imaginable interaction of the Middle East situation connected substance prices and proscription costs.

According to him, the conversion kits volition beryllium deployed wrong the adjacent 2 to 3 weeks and distributed done collaboration with aggregate stakeholders crossed the country.

He noted that the inaugural volition let conveyance owners, including tricycle operators and different commercialized transporters, to person their vehicles to tally connected compressed earthy gas, which is considered a cheaper alternate to pet...