{"id":83039,"date":"2026-02-25T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83039"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:42:06","slug":"interior-ministry-pi-cng-plan-working-group-to-drive-cng-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/25\/interior-ministry-pi-cng-plan-working-group-to-drive-cng-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry, Pi-CNG Plan Working Group to Drive CNG Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Interior and the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG) have proposed a high-level working group to accelerate adoption of Compressed Natural Gas across agencies under the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The decision followed a meeting in Abuja between Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and Pi-CNG Executive Chairman, Barr. Ismaeel Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Tunji-Ojo said the initiative aligns with the ministry\u2019s mandate, which covers 264 correctional centres, the Nigeria Immigration Service, Civil Defence formations and over 4,000 kilometres of national borders.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that CNG adoption would promote cleaner energy, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>He directed the immediate constitution of a working group, led by the ministry\u2019s Director of Joint Services, with representatives from relevant agencies to focus on fleet conversion, credit facilities and capacity building.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed commended the minister\u2019s commitment and expressed optimism about advancing sustainable energy use across the ministry\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Federal Ministry of Interior and the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG) have proposed a high-level working group to accelerate adoption of Compressed Natural Gas across agencies under the ministry. The decision followed a meeting in Abuja between Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and Pi-CNG Executive Chairman, Barr. Ismaeel Ahmed. Tunji-Ojo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039","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=83039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83041,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039\/revisions\/83041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}