₦airaland Forum

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.

jeff1993:
Small time na CNG go cost

callmevirus:
Nothing concern me but E dey mind

Like if you know that Tinubu is a failure

thesolutions:
Great. How many CNG dispensing station has the government built so far.

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?

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?

naptu2:
Oluwaseun Osiyemi is the Lagos State commissioner for transportation.

Oluwaseun Osiyemi @seunosiyemi_




PCNGi = Presidential CNG Initiative.

Coolestguy2023:
I hope the likes you are craving will bring food on your table

Coolestguy2023:
I hope the likes you are craving will bring food on your table

naptu2:
Let's see if it'll attach. This is NIPCO.

List of NIPCO CNG filling stations.

naptu2:
Let's see if it'll attach. This is NIPCO.

List of NIPCO CNG filling stations.

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

naptu2:
Check the map. https://nipcogas.com/nipco-gas-cng-stations/

Kaymaxi2222:
how far boss?

callmevirus:
Nothing concern me but E dey mind

Like if you know that Tinubu is a failure

chukwuibuipob:
Sleep well Gazzuz

benardtotti:
What happened to gazzuz?

naptu2:
Oluwaseun Osiyemi is the Lagos State commissioner for transportation.

Oluwaseun Osiyemi @seunosiyemi_




PCNGi = Presidential CNG Initiative.

naptu2:
Let's see if it'll attach. This is NIPCO.

List of NIPCO CNG filling stations.

thesolutions:
Great. How many CNG dispensing station has the government built so far.

Negroid001:
Medicine after death

MikkieEl:
No be this same CNG dey Edo state since?

ivandrag0n:
CHILD OF HATE, rest, before you die of heart failure!