{"id":1315,"date":"2025-01-18T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2025-01-18T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:08:15","slug":"cng-nass-tasks-fg-on-adaptability-test-frowns-at-avoidable-explosions-of-vehicles-decries-n903million-capital-vote-for-petroleum-ministry-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/cng-nass-tasks-fg-on-adaptability-test-frowns-at-avoidable-explosions-of-vehicles-decries-n903million-capital-vote-for-petroleum-ministry-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CNG : NASS tasks FG on adaptability test\u00a0 ….frowns at avoidable\u00a0 \u00a0explosions of vehicles\u00a0 ….decries N903million capital vote for Petroleum Ministry\u00a0 in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
By George Mgbeleke<\/div>\n
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The National\u00a0 Assembly Friday tasked the Federal Government to carry\u00a0 out thorough adaptability tests or research on Compressed Natural Gas ( CNG ) as\u00a0 alternative means of powering vehicular movements\u00a0 in Nigeria .<\/div>\n
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This is even as it frowned at avoidable\u00a0 explosions of some of the vehicles already\u00a0 converted from petrol\u00a0 powered automobiles\u00a0 to CNG powered ones .<\/div>\n
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It also decried the\u00a0 N903million earmarked for capital projects execution by the Ministry of Petroleum in 2025 fiscal year .<\/div>\n
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These were fallouts from 2025 budget defence session the National Assembly joint committee on Petroleum ( Downstream) , Petroleum ( Upstream ) and Gas , had with the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources , represented by the two\u00a0 Ministers of State in the Ministry<\/div>\n
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First to ask questions on the CNG conversion and incidences of vehicles explosion that happened in some parts of the country in recent time , was Hon Kafilat Ogbara who sought for explanations from the Minister of State for Gas , Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo on way out of the ugly\u00a0 incidences .<\/div>\n
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Senator Natasha Akpoti ( PDP Kogi Central) , fired a followed up question by asking the Minister , whether adaptability test or research was conducted before the idea of CNG was brought into the country for implementation .<\/div>\n
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” There is danger in adapting any form of\u00a0 technology without proper research or test on its adaptability .<\/div>\n
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” The vehicles being converted into CNG powered automobiles in Nigeria are originally built for Premium Motor Spirit ( PMS) aside bumpy or bad\u00a0 roads here,\u00a0 as against very smooth roads in countries\u00a0 where CNG technology is imported from .<\/div>\n
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” Also , was\u00a0 the factor\u00a0 of hot climate in Nigeria\u00a0 considered before importation of the\u00a0 idea of CNG ?”, she asked .<\/div>\n
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But in his response , the Minister of State for Gas said there is a Presidential Committee on CNG , that had carried out the adaptability test or research before operationalization of\u00a0 CNG initiative in Nigeria .<\/div>\n
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He declared that based on investigations conducted by his Ministry in collaboration with the Presidential Committee , all the CNG converted vehicles that had exploded , were not converted from certified centres .<\/div>\n
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” CNG has come to stay in Nigeria, those\u00a0 vehicles that exploded , were not converted at the certified centres but by road side technicians “, he said .<\/div>\n
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On the N903million capital vote for the Ministry in 2025, the Minister of State for Petroleum , Senator Henikien Lokpobiri informed the Senator Agom Jarigbe led committee that the projection is small because the ministry dwells more on policy\u00a0 formulation and not contracts execution<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By George Mgbeleke The National\u00a0 Assembly Friday tasked the Federal Government to carry\u00a0 out thorough adaptability tests or research on Compressed Natural Gas ( CNG ) as\u00a0 alternative means of powering vehicular movements\u00a0 in Nigeria . This is even as it frowned at avoidable\u00a0 explosions of some of the vehicles already\u00a0 converted from petrol\u00a0 powered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,698,92,674,23,41],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-gas","tag-budget","tag-defence","tag-gas","tag-joint","tag-nass","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}