{"id":65700,"date":"2025-05-13T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65700"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:11:33","slug":"cng-not-a-failure-success-evident-nigerians-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/13\/cng-not-a-failure-success-evident-nigerians-say\/","title":{"rendered":"CNG Not a Failure, Success Evident, Nigerians Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigerians have pushed back strongly against claims that the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), initiative is a failed project, insisting that its success is visible and growing by the day.<\/p>\n

The controversy began after an X user known as Duke Of Nigeria (@xagreat)\u2014a self-proclaimed God-fearing APC member and repentant BATist\u2014posted that the CNG campaign had fizzled out because \u201cnobody is paid to promote CNG again.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described the project as a “grand wastage of public funds” and tagged it a failure.<\/p>\n

But the post quickly drew backlash, with numerous Nigerians citing personal experience and visible progress of the CNG rollout nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommercial transporters in Lagos don dey use am\u2026 to fill 75kg no reach 5k,\u201d one user, @Blessing_boiy, responded.<\/p>\n

Another, @christ4moi, noted, \u201cCNG stations are opening rapidly across the country due to strong public demand. The sensitization you mislabeled as propaganda seems to have worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further testimonials pointed to the increasing use of CNG by public and private transport operators. \u201cPlenty keke dey use am for here oo,\u201d another user added.<\/p>\n

Others pointed out that hundreds of CNG trucks are now being cleared daily at Nigerian ports, and traditional fuel trucks may soon be phased out.<\/p>\n

Despite the growing evidence of CNG\u2019s adoption, Duke Of Nigeria remained dismissive, repeatedly responding to positive replies with, \u201cAre u using it?\u201d and \u201cStory for the gods.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Federal Government\u2019s CNG program was introduced as part of efforts to reduce dependence on petrol and ease the impact of fuel subsidy removal.<\/p>\n

While challenges remain, growing adoption suggests the initiative may be gaining ground faster than critics are willing to admit.<\/p>\n

As CNG buses, tricycles, and trucks continue to appear on Nigerian roads, citizens say the success of the initiative is no longer a question\u2014it is a fact unfolding daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Nigerians have pushed back strongly against claims that the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), initiative is a failed project, insisting that its success is visible and growing by the day. The controversy began after an X user known as Duke Of Nigeria (@xagreat)\u2014a self-proclaimed God-fearing APC member and repentant BATist\u2014posted that the CNG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1710],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-picng","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65700","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65702,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65700\/revisions\/65702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}