The Federal Government says a switch over from petrol-driven vehicles to Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, would cut down the cost of transportation in the country.
The Minister of Transportation, Said Alkali, stated this at a working visit to an International Liquified Natural Gas Energy Conversion, Transportation and Safety Company on Tuesday in Abuja. Alkali said that CNG -powered vehicles would change the Nigerian economy since transportation was the gateway to the nation’s economy. According to him, with the switch over to CNG , a lot of resources would be saved and the challenges with public transportation would be solved.
Ita Enang, said that CNG-driven vehicles would reduce the cost of transportation by 90 percent. “It is a massive effort, and it is for projects and programs like this that President Bola Tinubu created a specialized ministry of transportation and ministry of gas. “This is so that each of them will contribute in different ways to easing the cost of living and transportation for Nigerians.
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