{"id":33068,"date":"2024-05-29T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=33068"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:10:53","slug":"kwara-governor-unveils-nigerias-first-cng-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/29\/kwara-governor-unveils-nigerias-first-cng-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Governor Unveils Nigeria\u2019s First CNG Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday launched the conversion and installation of the first Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles in Ilorin, the state\u2019s capital<\/p>\n<p>AbdulRazaq who described the event as first of its kind in the country, added that CNG vehicles are safer and cheaper than other automobiles that run on petrol.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said this at the official launching of the Rolling Energy station \u2013 the vehicles conversion firm in Ilorin.<\/p>\n<p>AbdulRazaq disclosed that the state government has converted 20 of its petrol-engine vehicles to natural gas vehicles, adding that more would soon be added to the number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are witnessing today is the beginning of new future marking our new lifestyle. This is the direct benefit of oil subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu,\u201d AbdulRazaq stated.<\/p>\n<p>The governor explained that President Tinubu has between 2023 and now given his backing to natural gas over premium motor spirit, also known as petrol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have converted 20 government vehicles to CNG for test-drive, we shall convert all in few months,\u201d he assured<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the exercise would create more jobs especially for the youths, AbdulRazaq assured residents that the conversion is safer and cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the chief executive officer of Rolling Energy, Mubarak Danbata, enjoined all to embrace the Presidential Conversion of Natural Gas Initiative (P-CNGi) which he described as the in-thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am free to announce our readiness for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to reduce our much dependencies on petrol. We are poised to join the government to increase resilience to provide reliable services to the state,\u201d Danbata said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the station has the capacity of converting six petrol vehicles to CNG daily.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator of P-CNGi, Engr Michael Oluwagbemi urged all to embrace the future, while commending President Tinubu for his foresight and determination to take the country several miles into the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday launched the conversion and installation of the first Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles in Ilorin, the state\u2019s capital AbdulRazaq who described the event as first of its kind in the country, added that CNG vehicles are safer and cheaper than other automobiles that run on petrol. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33071,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068\/revisions\/33071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}