FG to launch LPG distribution channels in all 774 LGs

THE Federal Government has affirmed that it is planning to open Liquefied Petroleum Gas distribution channels in every local government in Nigeria.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this on Friday at the inauguration of the Nigerian Women for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Project, organised by the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Zigma Gas Limited and the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Abuja.

Sylva said, “The ministry is targeting to ameliorate the energy challenge in Nigeria and clean cooking gas is key in this regard because 70% of greenhouse emissions are caused by deforestation.

“This LPG project will enable us to empower rural women to use a more cleaner energy source for cooking.”

The Director General of NWCD, Mary Ekpere-Eta, added that the scheme would benefit Nigerian women and youths as it will support the efforts of the Federal Government in achieving its 2023 sustainable energy targets.

“The project is targeted at reaching 99 million women and households within three years cutting across the 120,000 polling units and all wards in the 774 LGAs in the federation.

“The first phase of this project will be targeting 11 states – Katsina, Sokoto, FCT, Ebonyi, Plateau, Adamawa, Borno, Bayelsa, Cross River, Imo and Ogun,’’ she said.

It should be noted that other policies aimed at maximising Nigeria’s internal gas usage had been the launched by the federal government. The recent move is geared towards the FG’s auto-gas initiative to convert one million cars to gas at no cost.