{"id":77748,"date":"2025-10-30T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77748"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:11:21","slug":"150-defence-police-personnel-begin-cng-conversion-safety-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/150-defence-police-personnel-begin-cng-conversion-safety-training\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Defence, Police Personnel Begin CNG Conversion, Safety Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samson Adeyanju<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to promote clean energy adoption and technical capacity development, 150 technicians, auto-mechanics, and vocational trainees drawn from the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air Force, Defence Headquarters, and Police Force will commence training on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) conversion and safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The training to be launched under the Pi-CNG Skilled Awareness Training (PSAT) \u2013 Train-the-Trainers Programme coming up soon is a collaboration between the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi), and the Office of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the organisers, the programme aims to build local expertise in CNG technology, empowering personnel to drive Nigeria\u2019s transition towards cleaner, more sustainable energy solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The PSAT initiative is part of the federal government\u2019s broader energy transition agenda designed to reduce dependence on petrol and diesel, create green jobs, and cut carbon emissions through the use of CNG-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju &nbsp; In a bid to promote clean energy adoption and technical capacity development, 150 technicians, auto-mechanics, and vocational trainees drawn from the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air Force, Defence Headquarters, and Police Force will commence training on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) conversion and safety protocols. The training to be launched under the Pi-CNG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77751,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions\/77751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}