By Edith Ike-Eboh
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said on Thursday that the Federal Government was working assiduously to ensure installation of gas filling plants in each of the 774 Local Government Areas in the country.
Kachikwu disclosed this in his keynote address at the commissioning of the Nigerian Army Welfare Limited Guaranty Gas plant at Mambilla Barracks, Abuja.
He said: “We are working with the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) companies producing cylinders, with very strong presidentially backed incentives to be enable them to produce LPG cylinders in this country.
“About four of them are getting facilities from the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) from the more than 200 million facilities we have.
“They are getting import exemption for materials to be assembled for the plants.
“Once you do that, you also expect them to assemble them around the more than 700 local government areas in…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
