{"id":66906,"date":"2025-05-30T05:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66906"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:34:52","slug":"fg-flags-off-campus-cng-transport-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/30\/fg-flags-off-campus-cng-transport-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Flags Off Campus CNG Transport Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new chapter in Nigeria\u2019s clean energy journey opened on Thursday, May 29, 2025, as the Federal Government officially launched Project SPROUT in Abuja, offering affordable and eco friendly transportation to students across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Project SPROUT, which stands for Special Palliative Relief of University Transportation, is powered by the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to transform mobility in tertiary institutions through the deployment of buses and tricycles that run on compressed natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is designed to ease the cost of transportation for students, reduce carbon emissions, and build technical capacity among Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n<p>By focusing on campuses, the project tackles both environmental concerns and the daily struggles of students, aligning with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s commitment to sustainable development and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a strategic step in providing cleaner, safer, and cheaper transport options for our students while advancing the clean energy goals of the nation,&#8221; said officials at the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Project SPROUT also promises to open up new employment opportunities and strengthen local skills in vehicle conversion and maintenance, laying the groundwork for broader adoption of green mobility solutions across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi A new chapter in Nigeria\u2019s clean energy journey opened on Thursday, May 29, 2025, as the Federal Government officially launched Project SPROUT in Abuja, offering affordable and eco friendly transportation to students across the country. Project SPROUT, which stands for Special Palliative Relief of University Transportation, is powered by the Presidential Compressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[287,59,1707],"class_list":["post-66906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cng","tag-featured","tag-picng"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66906","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66908,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66906\/revisions\/66908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}