Cooking Gas:  Osinbajo Says 13 Million Households To Embrace Usage In Five Years - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 9, 2019
Vice PresidentYemiOsinbajo says the Federal Government is working to ensure that 13 millionhouseholds embrace cooking gas in the next five years.
He stated this whilecommissioning a Liquified Petroleum Gas LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant inLekki area of Lagos State.
Osinbajo alsoreiterated the current administration’s commitment to creating jobs forNigerians.
According to him, theLPG sub-sector of the nation’s economy has the potential of providing 2 millionjobs.
Osinbajo who alsoheads the National Economic Council NEC said the Federal Government hasdemonstrated its commitment by establishing an Inter-Ministerial Committee anda multi-stakeholder national coordinating body; the National LPG ExpansionProgramme.
The Vice Presidentnoted that progress had been made in LPG adoption with the removal of fivepercent VAT from the domestic pricing of the commodity to discourageimportation.