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The Federal Government has announced that Nigeria currently operates 160 Compressed Natural Gas refuelling stations, with an additional 170 facilities undergoing development and licensing to expand alternative fuel adoption nationwide.

Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles, Ismaeel Ahmed, disclosed the figures on Friday, November 6, 2026, during the official commissioning of an integrated CNG refuelling unit in Karu, Abuja.

The facility was established through a public-private partnership between the State House, Pi-CNG, and Rolling Energy.

Ahmed stated that the country has moved past the proof-of-concept phase, with private investors committing approximately $2.6 billion to CNG infrastructure development. He added that President Bola Tinubu has ordered another deployment phase of 500 infrastructure units through the Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund to accelerate access across major corridors.

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“This is almost our 106th station across the country in less than two years. The market has been proven,” Ahmed said.

“Nigeria is 220 million people strong with 12 million vehicles. We are moving at a scale that we need to move. What we need is to speed up the scale.”

The Pi-CNG chairman noted that deploying CNG-powered commercial buses has reduced transport fares by 30 to 40 per cent along operational routes in Lagos, Abuja, and Kano. He cited the Kano-Katsina route, where passenger fares dropped from N4,000 to N1,500 following the introduction of gas-powered buses.

Permanent Secretary of the State House, Temitope Peter Fashedemi, explained that the new Karu station was created by rehabilitating an abandoned State House petrol station, with Rolling Energy providing the capital investment for equipment installation.