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    Daily Independent: LPG to Generate U.S. $10 Billion for Nigeria - Minister

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If 50% of the current kerosene users in Nigeria would switch over to the use of LPG, Nigeria would generate over $ 10.38 billion by 2018.

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Daily Independent: LPG to Generate U.S. $10 Billion for Nigeria - Minister

Minister of National Planning Commission, Abubakar Sulaiman, has said if 50 per cent of the current kerosene users in Nigeria would switch over to the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Nigeria would generate over $ 10.38 billion by 2018.

Sulaiman stated this in Abuja, at the inauguration of the Inter- Ministerial Committee on Kerosene to Gas Initiative in Nigeria: The Indonesian Model.

The Minister, represented by the Acting Secretary to the Commission, Bassey Akpanyung, said the Inter ministerial Committee was expected to discuss the possibility of replicating the Indonesian model of kerosene to LP Gas in Nigeria

Sulaiman explained that the adoption of the Indonesian model of kerosene to LP Gas Initiative in Nigeria would greatly promote the wide usage of LPG over kerosene, thereby boosting the economic activities of Nigeria.
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