Mon Dec 07 2020
In a move that signalled the beginning of the long-awaited gas revolution in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari last week launched the National Gas Expansion Programme and National Autogas Rollout Initiative in Abuja.
The programme has an ambitious target of enabling about 40 per cent of vehicles plying the Nigerian roads to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
Ahead of this, the Buhari administration had earlier in the year launched the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, which will hopefully power the industries and utilities along the central and northern axis of the country.
At the launch of the programme, President Buhari stated that “it is no longer news that the vast natural gas resources, which Nigeria is endowed with have hitherto been used sub-optimally as a result of dearth of gas processing facilities and infrastructure connectivity for effective and optimal domestic utilisation’’.