The Nigerian government, through the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI), said the country now has 65 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations nationwide.
The PCNGI Chief Executive, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this at the Mobility CNG Supply Framework Kick-off Event in Abuja.
The event marked the kickoff of a concessionary gas pricing framework programme to make CNG available and cheaper for Nigerians.
“What we are doing here today is to flag off the implementation of that concessionary pricing framework.
“So we needed to do it in an organized fashion, create the proper market for autogad CNG, and also then develop the Marketplace where people can actually make demand and pay for it.
“We went from just 20 daughter stations in the country to well over 65 as of this morning,” Oluwagbemi said.
The PCNGI boss noted that 28 new CNG stations would be inaugurated in the coming weeks.
Two new CNG stations were opened in Ibadan on Tuesday, with more expected to come online in the next four to five weeks.