The Minister of Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, says the Federal Government has so far invested $450m in compressed natural gas. Ekpo disclosed this at the ongoing Practical Nigerian Content Forum organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. According to Ekpo, gas will be the mainstay of Nigeria’s energy shift, and the government is giving local businesses a chance to engage in gas distribution, processing, and power generation. He st...

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 Federal Government on Thursday handed over 15 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered buses to transport unions in the country. The beneficiaries were the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), and the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO). In his address at the handover ceremony in Abuja, the Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali, said the scheme was designed to ease the burden of fuel subsidy rem...

Majalisar Wakilai ta Nijeriya ta yanke shawarar tsara dokar da zai kula da tsarin, shirye-shirye, da amfani da tankunan Gas din Compressed Natural (CNG) a motoci. Wannan shawara ta biyo bayan harin tankunan CNG a jihar Edo, wanda ya yi sanadiyar asarar rayuka da raunuka. Majalisar ta kuma yanke shawarar binciken lamarin da kuma kiran dokar da zai kawar da matsalolin da ke tattare da amfani da tankunan CNG. Abokin tarayya, Dr. Benjamin Kalu, wakilin mazaɓar Bende na Abia, ya bayyana cewa dokar t...

News Investigators/ Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf of Kano State, on Wednesday, inaugurated 10 Federal Government’s Compressed Natural Gas-powered buses to provide affordable transportation for workers in the North West region. The buses were inaugurated at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Secretariat in Kano. In a speech, Kabir-Yusuf commended President Bola Tinubu for his initiative to provide the vehicles for workers in the region. He described the project as a significant step towards reducing tra...