The Nigeria Customs Service said importers of gas-related equipment must present a letter of Import Duty Exemption Certificate (IDEC) from the Federal Ministry of Finance and a letter of support from the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Energy to benefit from a zero import tariff. This comes as the service on Wednesday announced that it has commenced the implementation of a zero import tariff for all gas equipment importation. Items to be exempted from the import tariff comprise...

Advertisement As part of the effort to reduce the high cost of transportation within the nation’s capital, the federal government handed over 15 high-powered buses on Thursday under the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative to various transport unions in FCT. The Minister of Transportation, Senator Sa’id Alkali, while handing out the buses to the unions in Abuja, said the Renewed Hope Clean Energy Transport Scheme is a strategic initiative designed to ease the burden of fuel subsidy...

The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has announced that his administration would make available 100 brand new 18-seater Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses for the use of transporters in the state. The Governor, who made this known in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, also said that the Federal Government would make available 20 CNG-enabled buses and 500 conversion kits to the state government during the week. Governor Abiodun disclosed this at a meeting with transport unions on how to...