Federal Government has disclosed that automobile owners will pay up to N250, 000 for conversion targeted at enabling them run on gas. Speaking at Channels Television Programme monitored by Vanguard, Justice Derefaka, Technical Adviser on Gas Business and Policy Implementation to Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, said the conversion would be carried out at various centres nationwide.

He said: “The conversion of your vehicle is not something that will take three weeks or seven days; it will take you around seven to eight hours because they (technicians) need to do a diagnosis of your vehicle to see if it is fit for conversion. After that, they will test for roadworthiness and then proceed.”
The owner of the car will decide to say I want to run on autogas or CNG or LNG and like the honourable minister had mentioned before, conversion has basic strands, you can partner with your bank and the bank will now agree with the conversion centre to convert your vehicle, not for free entirely.

“The installer will now put some form of mechanism that each time you buy the gas; a certain amount will be deducted to pay for the conversion kit. Some people will say it is too expensive but I do not think it is because within a period of five to seven months, you’ve already paid off the cost.”

He added: “The cost varies, it depends on the cylinder of the vehicle but on the average, it is around N200, 000 to N250, 000 and this is for a four-cylinder vehicle but it becomes a little bit higher for a six-cylinder vehicle. If you take your vehicle to some of the centres like the one commissioned yesterday (Tuesday), technicians and original equipment manufacturers are there so you can bring your vehicles for conversion to start running on gas.”

Previously, speaking at the launch of the policy in Abuja on Tuesday, Chief Sylva, had said: “We would start in the first quarter of next year with over 100 buses and we would continue to incrementally add the buses until we get to that number. We are going to have one million conversion kits, which would be with the people who would be converting the vehicles. Any motorist that wants to convert his or her vehicle would only drive into the conversion centres and convert their vehicles free at all time.
Unfortunately, we have not utilized our gas resources optimally. We have over 200 trillion cubic feet of gas, TCF, already discovered. We have initiated programmes in the gas supply side, with the proposed launch of gas facilities in Edo State and the National Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme, but we needed to boost the utilization side, and that is what this programme is about. Today’s roll-out marks the optimal utilisation of Nigeria’s gas resources across the country.”

He had added: “The availability of autogas as an alternative fuel option will afford Nigerians cheaper, cleaner and additional choice of fuel, cheaper than the price of PMS, cleaner for our environment, better for our automobiles and other engines.”
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With how hot our environment is and careless inexperienced mechanics,they want to turn vehicles to mobile bomb. Even GSM can cause explosion not to talk of smoking inside your car and smelling gas.
A good avenue for bokoharam to carry bomb attacks.

We love copy copy without indigenous research solution.

O da na

Airlove:
With how hot our environment is and careless inexperienced mechanics,they want to turn vehicles to mobile bomb. Even GSM can cause explosion not to talk of smoking inside your car and smelling gas.
A good avenue for bokoharam to carry bomb attacks.

We love copy copy without indigenous research solution.

lol

Airlove:
With how hot our environment is and careless inexperienced mechanics,they want to turn vehicles to mobile bomb. Even GSM can cause explosion not to talk of smoking inside your car and smelling gas.
A good avenue for bokoharam to carry bomb attacks.

We love copy copy without indigenous research solution.

Stop ranting

Stop finding faults were there's none

Nigeria is not ripe for such expensive risk. Our maintenance culture is still a dismissal.

With high daily temperature and accident prone roads. Please don't try this in Nigeria to avoid had I know.

MadamExcellency:
Nigeria is not ripe for such expensive risk. Our maintenance culture is still a dismissal.

With high daily temperature and accident prone roads. Please don't try this in Nigeria to avoid had I know.

Where is the risk there.. there are hundreds if not thousands of cars,buses currently running on gas in Nigeria.

We keep complaining about how Nigeria is backward, about how we are living in the past but still when the Government makes effort to better our life,we still find ways to complain.

These guys are busy making announcements in other sectors, with no concrete actions on security.

This Government is always changing the immediate narrative. So it can prepare a more dubious solution that will benefit it cronies.

Ok

uptimum123:


Where is the risk there.. there are hundreds if not thousands of cars,buses currently running on gas in Nigeria.

We keep complaining about how Nigeria is backward, about how we are living in the past but still when the Government makes effort to better our life,we still find ways to complain.

Leakages from distribution system due to lack of maintenance culture. Liquidified Petroleum Gas is highly inflammable in relation to our daily temperature of 30'C to 45'C

MadamExcellency:


Leakages from distribution system due to lack of maintenance culture. Liquidified Petroleum Gas is highly inflammable in relation to our daily temperature of 30'C to 45'C

And what do you have to say about PMS

The Government is always looking for ways to milk the populace of their little income. Imagine 250k for upgrading to gas system from the petrol system. I trust IBO boys_they will crash the price for them not long from now.

MadamExcellency:
Nigeria is not ripe for such expensive risk. Our maintenance culture is still a dismissal.

With high daily temperature and accident prone roads. Please don't try this in Nigeria to avoid had I know.

There is never a ripe time

A welcome development

Lol

Funny FG

Baba Go slow don go do U turn

More mobile bombs for boko haram, more explosions during travel

Thieves.

This one bomb will be going off anyhow on the road

Hahahahahahah... When dey sent Minister of Condolence to announce that FG will b converting vehicles tongues gas FREE OF CHARGE, I couldn't stop laughing. Dis same ediots claimed dey will be converting vehicles for Nigerians free of charge..Make I even find d thread sef

Buhahahahahahaha...

uptimum123:


And what do you have to say about PMS

We are talking about degree of inflammability.

Risk Assessment is a must for safety.

Hmmm

Na full engine them want replace with that amount!

If it takes the government of another country $10 to get a job done, it will take the Nigerian government x100 of that amount to get the same job not properly done!

Na follow come go make sense pass all this conversion stuff

uptimum123:


Stop ranting

Stop finding faults were there's none

But she made a valuable point. If she is wrong point out her faults instead of going ballistic?

MadamExcellency:


We are talking about degree of inflammability.

Risk Assessment is a must for safety.

I would advice that for the sake of your mental health, you should stop replying because he may never understand you.

MadamExcellency:


We are talking about degree of inflammability.

Risk Assessment is a must for safety.

What's the degree for PMS...what's the quantity of the gas for it to be highly inflammable.

If you had followed the launching yesterday or took your time to know the full process involved you probably would have a different opinion.

Before any vehicle is to be converted,there are laid down procedures to be followed which include checking if it's road worthy just to name a few. Also for now only filling stations are allowed to make the conversion.

NNPC is also providing free conversion services in some selected NNPC Retail Filling Stations to assist interested motorists switch from PMS to Autogas.

This is not rocket science, even more than 80% of vehicles in Ghana are running on Autogas, so what are we saying.

privaldo:


I would advice that for the sake of your mental health, you should stop replying because he may never understand you.

You this flat headed boy from potopoto republic...you should be ashamed of yourself, we already know your kind so I will rather just ignore your shenanigans

uptimum123:


You this flat headed boy from potopoto republic...you should be ashamed of yourself, we already know your kind so I will rather just ignore your shenanigans

Is that all you can say? How you wish I was Igbo but don't worry I can't be Igbo at least not in this lifetime, I am a full blooded Niger Deltan, so you can masturbate on that.

Have a nice day daft.

privaldo:



Is that all you can say? How you wish I was Igbo but don't worry I can't be Igbo at least not in this lifetime, I am a full blooded Niger Deltan, so you can masturbate on that.

Have a nice day daft.

What's the difference ?

Flatiino Head and Ipob...All join together

uptimum123:


What's the difference ?

Flatiino Head and Ipob...All join together

Oga that one na your problem, oil no dey mix with water . I have no time for your back and forth, as we say in Izon "Egberifaa".

privaldo:


Oga that one na your problem, oil no dey mix with water . I have no time for your back and forth, as we say in Izon "Egberifaa".

Fool go to ogoni land that is close to you and see how oil is missing with water.