PCNGI Gears Up To Promote CNG Adoption, Infrastructure Expansion

The Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI) has announced a series of events and activities planned for the week of Nigeria’s Independence.. The initiatives, which it said, aim to increase the adoption of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a cleaner, more affordable alternative to fuel.

To kick off the lineup of activities for the independence week, starting from last Friday, 27th September, 2024, it announced the commencement of CNG Transport Fare Drop Programme, which will include the signing ceremony with National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW), covering the Abuja to Itakpe Station – Ajaokuta Train Station – Adavi to convert fleet vehicles to CNG in return for 30-40 per cent fare reduction.
This programme, it stressed, will serve as an incentive to NURTW members in Abuja to convert their vehicles to CNG in exchange for a fare reduction.

The PCNGi is expected to continue its nationwide commercial incentive programme for commercial cars open day, expanding to 38 centres in Kaduna, Abuja, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta and Edo state on Saturday, 28th of September 2024

On Monday, September 30, the signing ceremony with Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) to operationalize the Nigerian Police CNG Conversion Programme and train cadets to man strategic conversion centres the NPTF is investing in. This initiative, it stated, will help train the police cadets to manage strategic conversion centres established by the NPTF.

To celebrate Nigeria’s 64th Anniversary of Independence on the 1st of October 2024, the PCNGi will be launching the CNG Tricycle Empowerment Program in collaboration with the Ministry of Youths. This program aims to provide over 2000 young Nigerians with the opportunity to own and operate CNG-powered tricycles in 2024.

The PCNGi, it said, will launch the Kogi State Conversion Incentive Programme and hand over CNG buses to the state’s mass transit entity to ply interstate routes to Abuja, even as the PCNGI will inaugurate three new CNG conversion sites in the state on Wednesday, 2nd of October 2024.

To conclude the week’s activities, it noted that, the CIP would launch in Ekiti State where the handover of CNG buses to the states mass transit to ply interstate route to Abuja and inaugurate four new CNG conversion sites in Ekiti.