₦airaland Forum

Max24:
What will happen to Dangotes PMS after introducing CNG ?

naptu2:
I hope that we don't rely on CNG. We need a mixture of energy sources and competition between all of them - petrol, CNG, electric vehicles, etc.

⚽️👇COACHES THIS IS FOR YOU👇⚽️

Here is a session that we used in our preparation for the World Champions Spain.

This was popular with my community; Coach2Coach. So I thought I’d share it here.

At the Olympics you play every 3 days so there is no real time to prepare. 

We played Brazil in the opening game, the next day is recovery, and then the next day is Match Day -1. 
 
On Match Day -1 we used this activity to prepare. 

We knew they would have the ball as they are the best in the world. So we wanted to be disciplined in our defending, and play off the counter attack. 

We hoped to at least get a point, unfortunately they scored off of a free kick in the 86th minute. 

But our team executed the plan very well, and in fact we had 4-5 really good opportunities to score.
 
We wanted to play in a 4-5-1 formation when the ball was in central areas. 

When the ball went into the wide areas we wanted to play in a 5-4-1 to help avoid the overloads they create in those areas. 

So this is how we did it. 

Remember this is match day -1 so it was a walk through type session with some activation transition added at the end.

Hope you enjoy!

jidemojola:
We hope the price of CNG won’t start going up as soon as demand increase.Also availability of the product is key for continuity.

TheTundeMuniru:
CNG Station in SANGOTEDO? Where exactly in SANGOTEDO? Would like to know. Thanks.

MemoriesAndMe:
Must everything be built by the government? Is anything stopping private individuals from investing in their personal dispensing stations and making profit from that business? No be same one head wey all of us get wey dangote get wey him build him own refinery? Was he waiting for government?

naptu2:
I guess the removal of petrol subsidies has made it more viable.

naptu2:
I remember that, back in the 1980s, NNPC regularly exhibited a made in Nigeria peugeot 504 that ran on gas, with the promise that such cars would go on sale in Nigeria "next year".

naptu2:
Let me clarify about Peugeot 504. PAN continued making Peugeot 504 in Nigeria, when other countries had stopped producing, it for specific reasons.

The original goal of the 1969 auto conference was to produce a Made In Nigeria car. Bedford had been doing CKD since 1959, but Gowon wanted a completely made in Nigeria car. Peugeot took this challenge very seriously.

They had been increasingly sourcing parts in Nigeria and they kept the public informed about it. So you'd hear announcements like 70% made in Nigeria, 80% made in Nigeria, etc.

You could win a 504 if you hit a hole in one at the Nigerian golf tournament at Ikoyi Club in the 1980s. It was heavily marketed.

Peugeot had a joint venture with the Nigerian Gas Company (a subsidiary of NNPC) to produce a Peugeot 504 that ran on gas (1989). There was a lot of publicity about it, but NGC did not fulfil its part of the obligation (there were no filling stations equipped with gas dispensers).

So this was a thing of pride for PAN. They had built a Made In Nigeria car and they wanted it to go on forever, so they kept re-inventing it. Adding plastic here and there, until they finally stopped making it in 2005. They were still re-modelling the cars in 2008.

naptu2:
You don't understand. The first time that I saw a compressed natural gas filling station in Nigeria was in 1989. That's almost 31 years ago. How many of these stations exist across Nigeria today.

Peugeot had committed to making Peugeot 504 cars that ran on compressed natural gas, expecting that there would be filling stations across Nigeria, but how many of these stations are in Lagos? How many are in Abuja? How many are in Enugu? Yet this is 31 years later.

naptu2:
Once again, sometime in the 2000s, a subsidiary of the NNPC ran a programme in Benin City to convert vehicles to run on CNG. Many vehicles in Benin now use CNG and they built 15 CNG stations in the city. However, they did not extend this programme nationwide.

naptu2:
Let me show you how unserious Nigeria is.

Some people might think that this compressed natural gas (CNG) idea is new, but it is not. I watched as the government said that it was rolling out a CNG programme in the late 1980s. In response Peugeot made 504 cars that ran on CNG. The Nigerian Gas Company was meant to build fuel stations that dispensed CNG. They never did. The Peugeot 504 cars were just like prototypes.

Once again, sometime in the 2000s, a subsidiary of the NNPC ran a programme in Benin City to convert vehicles to run on CNG. Many vehicles in Benin now use CNG and they built 15 CNG stations in the city. However, they did not extend this programme nationwide.

It is only now, when we have damaged our economy with subsidy and when we have no choice, that we are considering having a national CNG programme.

I have been posting about this since 2012.








It's similar to how we should have removed subsidy since the early 1980s, but we kept it until it almost ruined us. The only reason we stopped it now is because we have no money. Some people think that this subsidy issue began in the Goodluck Jonathan or Obasanjo eras, but government has been trying to remove it since the early 1980s.

Similarly, I have been shouting since 1987 that we needed to get rid of our numerous money losing parastatals. It looked like government wanted to take over every sector of the economy, shut out individuals and pump money into them without considering where the money was coming from and how much we were losing in taxes that would have been paid by individuals if they had been running companies in those sectors. There was NICON, Daily Times, New Nigerian, NNSL, Nepa, Nitel, Nipost, Nigerdock, FMB, Nigeria Airways and so on and so forth. We had to wait until we had no money (during the Obasanjo era) before we sold all that nonsense.

Taigaban:
But is it only Lagos that should benefit from this initiative? Meanwhile I haven't seen CNG sold anywhere. What is really going on?

Lagosians, make una no miss *'OPERATION FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE'* dis na opportunity to convert your car/muto to CNG fueling. Na Federal government project wey go save you money on fuel and helep the environment. Check the graphic for location inside Lagos State so you go join enjoy dis opportunity today!