Lagos unveils four-year plan to boost LPG
By Bidemi Bakare 22/09/2011 00:00:00
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The Lagos State government yesterday revealed plans to boost consumption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also called cooking gas, in the state in the next four years.
It said it is prepared to raise its consumption, put at about 60 per cent of the nation’s total consumption, through different targets.
At a public/private sector dialogue on LPG for cleaner and greener environment in Lagos, the state’s Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Taofik Tijani, enumerated some of these targets.
They include injection of an estimated 2.3 million gas cylinders/cookers into the system, establishment of 200 auto gas conversion and 200 cylinder maintenance workshops and the registration of 150 new trucks.
Others are the introduction of LPG into 50 per cent of taxis, government vehicles, public transport buses and corporate staff buses.
The state also hopes to record 800 new retailers and 100 new plants.
On how the state intends to achieve these targets, Taofik said it has put in place many strategies.
These, he said, includes the development of innovative funding mechanisms in form of micro finance schemes to overcome initial costs, the regulation of fair competition in the industry and the development and enforcement of world class cylinder management principles.
Other strategies include the campaign against cross filling and decanting to ensure consumer protection, encouragement of the use of appropriate equipment for economic and safety reasons and targeting subsidies for household use by lowering the initial entry cost of service.
He noted that LPG consumption in the state was low compared with some mega cities in the world, he said with the government’s action and attitude of residents toward LPG, the right environment can be created for investment to flow. LPG has become popular across the world because of the advantages it offers, he added.
Some of the advantages are the reduction of deforestation, improvement of health, provision of significant business opportunities, reduction of poverty and decrease in CO2 emissions.
He noted that the private-public dialogue on LPG was necessary to help the state develop a blueprint for moving the LPG sector forward.
He said: “We are aware that infrastructure is important to develop LPG. We know there are cylinder manufacturing companies somewhere around Ibadan and other places. So, what my ministry intends to do is to engage the manufactures of these cylinders to find out what there problems and challenges are.”
We think that when the LPG cylinder manufacturing companies are working then they can produce the cylinders locally and complement what is being imported. So we will take the initiative to engage the manufacturers to find out how we can support them.”

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/business/20497-lagos-unveils-four-year-plan-to-boost-lpg.html

Interesting

i see that someone is gonna be very rich becos of this. how do they intend to make ppl buy/consume LPG? dem wan force us abi wetin?

This should have been done, better late than never sha. Lagosians shouldn't be burning and cooking with fire wood and dirty kerosene stoves.

We really need to get more comfortable with gas.


This is def' another eko o ni baje moment,

lagcity:

i see that someone is gonna be very rich becos of this. how do they intend to make ppl buy/consume LPG? dem wan force us abi wetin?

I don't see where they suggested or plan to do such. Are they forcing Lagosians to use stoves and burn fir wood? Of course not, the government creating the necessary environment for people to take advantage of LPG.

Eko Ile:


I don't see where they suggested or plan to do such. Are they forcing Lagosians to use stoves and burn fir wood? Of course not, the government creating the necessary environment for people to take advantage of LPG.

the question is how r they gonna make ppl change their minds? what is this necessary environment? these guys r just too vague. r they gonna make it cheaper and more affordable than all other alternatives? ppl are not just gonna join the bandwagon becos LPG sounds cool and is gonna save the environment.

Wetin concern govt with disss

Why is cooking gas expensive in Nigeria,
In Ghana it cost me Ghc 9 to fill my 15kg gas which is N900 - N1000.
But the same thing in Nigeria cost N2700+

^-- *shrug*

If you don't like it, bounce

Don't let the door hit your @ss on the way out

ode. f00l. thats why you have an animal and criminal like tinubu as your leader. bunch of poor and penniless jobless bunch.

dplordx:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.

Is it not possible to make a point without derailing the thread? This doesn't make your point any more plausible.

dplordx:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.

You bigots and your blatant lies. Yes some roads are bad but many are superb and have been renovated to good standards. Right now, as we speak,Julius Berger is all over Surulere conducting road and drainage projects. Abi that one is fraud too? Adeniran Ogunsanya, one of the notable high Streets in Surulere, is now looking as best as I have seen it. It is completely renovated with middle demarcation and drainage channels. Eric Moore road Nko? I went past that road everyday as a kid on the way to School. I can say , hands on heart ,that the road has never looked as it does now/today !!!! It used to be pothole riddled and perpetually flooded !!!! Is that a mirage also?

The main road running through Shitta is now under total overhaul as we speak. Anyone , in Lagos, will confirm all I am saying. Furthermore, I urge Lagosians to check out Bode Thomas to see what Julius Berger is doing. I know a thing or two about built environment and I can confirm that the drainage channels currently being layed down are far superior in performance and design to what was in place prior to that.  

I am not really one for pictures but I will oblige the forum soon with pictures , from various areas of Lagos, showing many, many good and pothole free roads that will confirm that , on average, Lagos roads  are much better than they were before Fashola.Of course haters and bigots will focus on bad roads alone and talk of "flower planting".It is their nature.

dplordx:

ode. f00l. thats why you have an animal and criminal like tinubu as your leader. bunch of poor and penniless jobless bunch.

My region is the 2nd richest in Nigeria after the SS. It looks like the gap will only widen over the next 4 years, given the competent hands we have on deck in the SW.

So why would I want your sympathy? Save it for yourself.

It's apity that our universities have become so intelectually poor. I would expect the relevant dept in say unilag to conduct a study as the actual costs of a household using kerosene vs gas. I have always suspected that the poor masses who always struggle to buy kerosene, might actually be better off using gas. They are just too illiterate to do the math and probably too poor to afford the initial set up cost for gas( cylinder and cooker)

However, if it is proven that gas is cheaper, then LASG could help the poorer residents migrate to gas by either provision of grants to buy cylinder and basic table top cookers or provision of the cylinders /cookers directly.

lagcity:

the question is how r they gonna make ppl change their minds? what is this necessary environment? these guys r just too vague. r they gonna make it cheaper and more affordable than all other alternatives? ppl are not just gonna join the bandwagon becos LPG sounds cool and is gonna save the environment.

It's really pointless going back and forth with you, why not just let the government do it's job and let the public respond before spewing your redundant negativity? You people just criticize anything and everything just for the heck of it, I don't even see any basis for your mindless and redundant criticism.

Why don't your spare us the myopic and negative outcome and let the people of Lagos state decide,   

Folks is Lagos are already using it and gas is the way forward.

Btw, what's so vague about creating the necessary environment? What in your mind do you think the article is talking about

What about the other aspects of the proposed gas initiative like gas powered buses, vans and taxis? That's wrong too hun?


Sometimes I really wonder about many of you. Given the opportunity, you people will drag us back to the stone age with your negative, backward and closed minded thinking.

dplordx:

ode. f00l. thats why you have an animal and criminal like tinubu as your leader. bunch of poor and penniless jobless bunch.

The fact that you and your people are destined to remain in the dark age in your villages hurt so bad.

Ndo.

dplordx:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.

The fact that you can not walk and chew gum at the same time doesn't mean others can not. You are guilty of defrauding your own brain of common sense and knowledge.

Oh well this sounds like a good project though; however, I hope they have the right structure in place to make sure that poor citizens are not paying high prices for these gas.

dplordx:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.

NAh, you talking trash. Dnt allow tribalism lead you to nowhere.


Good one BRF.

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.


The Nigerian Situation of Leadership now had demanded that Everybody wants the few Good Ones like BRF to Do More and they Criticise the Good One in the Process.

The InSecurity all Over Lagos Slogan had been on the Lips of those who in the last few years Enjoyed the BRF Security Measures. I want say Bad of anyone but We should all know that NIGERIA is Built on a Faulty Foundation and the SOLUTION is to PULL the House DOWN. If to Rebuild We Decide and If Not We Decide.

The Future of LAGOS is Far Brighter than the Future of NIGERIA.

If Nigeria is not Ready to Develop, She is just Over Stretching and expanding Lagos.

Nice project!!!

dplordx:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.

. If you don't like his policies, simply say so. Why insult the WHOLE ethnic group?? Better still, if you hate your neighbours who you live with, go to work etc. Feel free to relocate to another state, abi? We can criticise but you took it too far!

Omoadugbo:

BRF has become a complete joke. With bad roads all over the place, and insecurity all over Lagos; and many abandoned and uncompleted projects, his concern now is cooking gas. I knew this guy was a complete fraud like his useless Yoruba people.


The Nigerian Situation of Leadership now had demanded that Everybody wants the few Good Ones like BRF to Do More and they Criticise the Good One in the Process.

The InSecurity all Over Lagos Slogan had been on the Lips of those who in the last few years Enjoyed the BRF Security Measures. I want say Bad of anyone but We should all know that NIGERIA is Built on a Faulty Foundation and the SOLUTION is to PULL the House DOWN. If to Rebuild We Decide and If Not We Decide.

The Future of LAGOS is Far Brighter than the Future of NIGERIA.

If Nigeria is not Ready to Develop, She is just Over Stretching and expanding Lagos.

I think so as well but include Delta, Ogun and Rivers state.