{"id":66253,"date":"2025-05-21T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66253"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:42:09","slug":"jos-set-for-transport-boost-with-cng-hub-training-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/jos-set-for-transport-boost-with-cng-hub-training-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos Set for Transport Boost with CNG Hub, Training Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Plateau State Government has sealed a major deal with the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology to establish a Compressed Natural Gas conversion centre and a Liquefied Natural Gas mega station in Jos.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Transport, Hon. Jatau Gyang Davou, disclosed this while presenting his ministry\u2019s scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>He said a temporary site has already been identified and will undergo renovations to kick-start operations soon.<\/p>\n<p>In a related move, Davou announced plans for a training and learning centre in Jos under the supervision of the institute.<\/p>\n<p>The centre is expected to commence academic activities in September 2025 and will offer various transport-related programmes including short courses, diplomas, postgraduate diplomas and master\u2019s degrees in logistics and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>To support the conversion centre, Greenville Limited has given approval for the project, which will serve Plateau and surrounding northeastern states.<\/p>\n<p>The state has allocated five hectares of land for the development, pending issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy.<\/p>\n<p>Davou also revealed that the state is developing a comprehensive multi-modal transport policy and master plan, supported by NITT Zaria, to position Plateau as a regional hub for mobility, trade and infrastructure-driven growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Plateau State Government has sealed a major deal with the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology to establish a Compressed Natural Gas conversion centre and a Liquefied Natural Gas mega station in Jos. Commissioner for Transport, Hon. Jatau Gyang Davou, disclosed this while presenting his ministry\u2019s scorecard. He said a temporary site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1710],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66253","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\/66253","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=66253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66254,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253\/revisions\/66254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}