The Federal Government on Thursday announced that it was creating micro-distribution centres where users of cooking gas would access the commodity at affordable rates and rent cylinders.
It also disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other oil marketers would start installing Compressed Natural Gas pumps at filling stations in order to make Nigerians shift from the use of petrol to the CNG in automobiles.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mele Kyari, also disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic had stalled the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery. He said, “Today the reason why people cannot really use gas or why the penetration is low is because the initial capital outlay in using gas is quite high to the ordinary man.
He added, “With this we believe that gas will now begin to compete with other cooking fuels, because today the advantage that kerosene has over gas is that if you don’t have the money to buy a litre of kerosene, you can buy a bottle or half a bottle.
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