The Federal Government, through the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, has said about 175 new Compressed Natural Gas refilling stations will be ready in the next 12 to 18 months.
The PCNGI Programme Coordinator, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this in a video shared on the PCNGI’s X handle on Sunday.
According to him, the 175 stations will reduce the stress faced by Nigerians in accessing CNG. Oluwagbemi expressed satisfaction that the nation has moved from 11 CNG stations last year to 65 in 2025.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we are in a much better place than we were when we kicked off this programme this time last year. When we started in January of last year, there were fewer than 11 functional CNG stations in Nigeria. Most of them lacked customers because people did not know about CNG as a potential fuel for transportation. Today, we’re in a much different place.
“We’ve used the better part of last year to kick off a very intense conversion programme after an intense awareness campaign that took us across the country.”
