CNG DISASTER: N3 TRILLION IN THE BANK. ZERO KOBO ON THE ROAD. DRIVERS SLEEPING IN QUEUES.
GREATRIBUNETVNEWS –THE Money Is There. The Gas Is Not. The Dream Is Dying — Not For Lack Of Money, But For Refusal To Spend It.
Nigeria — Picture this.
It is 2 a.m. on Abuja Airport Road. A man is asleep on his steering wheel. His wife is asleep in the back seat. His children are curled up on the floor of a commercial bus. They have been there for days.
Not because Nigeria has no gas. Not because Nigeria has no money.
Because N3 trillion is sitting somewhere, untouched.
That is the cruel joke of Tinubu’s flagship CNG programme today.
The money was meant to build mother stations and daughter stations across Nigeria. To end fuel queues. To make gas cheap and available. To give drivers a future.
Two years later, the future has not arrived. The stations have not been built. The 23 firms cleared to build them have not received one kobo. Not one.
And yet, the men in charge of the money are travelling. Abroad. Again and again. Trips critics say add zero value — while drivers add zero sleep, zero rest, zero dignity, sleeping in Shafa, in NIPCO, in Mobil, in NNPC, in Prince and Princess, in Gaduwa, in New Nyanya, in Zone 1.
Same story everywhere: endless queues. Angry drivers. Shut pumps. Empty tanks. Broken promises.
This is not poverty. This is not scarcity. This is sabotage by delay. A war chest locked away while the soldiers on the road starve.
If N3 trillion cannot buy gas for Nigeria, what can?
THE COLLAPSE:
“N3trn Gas Fund Trapped As Tinubu’s CNG Dream Collapses — Motorists Sleep In Filling Stations- Report”
THE CRISIS:
“President Bola Tinubu’s flagship Compressed Natural Gas programme is in deep crisis.”
THE REASON — MONEY SITTING IDLE, DRIVERS SLEEPING:
“Reason: A N3 trillion war chest meant to build gas infrastructure is sitting idle, while motorists sleep for days in filling stations begging for gas.”
THE FUND:
“The fund — the Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund (MDGIF) — was created under the Petroleum Industry Act and warehoused with the NMDPRA to bankroll mother and daughter CNG stations across Nigeria.”
TWO YEARS, NOT A KOBO:
“Two years after, not a kobo has reached the 23 prequalified firms cleared to build the infrastructure.”
THE ALLEGATION:
“An investigative report by InsideBusinessNg showed the executive team led by Executive Director, Wole Adama, has refused to disburse the over N3 trillion, while allegedly junketing abroad on trips critics say add zero value.”
THE RESULT — NATIONWIDE SCARCITY:
“The result is nationwide scarcity. From Shafa to NIPCO, Mobil to NNPC stations on Abuja Airport Road, Prince and Princess, Gaduwa, New Nyanya and Zone 1, the story is the same — endless queues, angry drivers, shut pumps.”
THE BOTTOM LINE:
N3 trillion trapped. 23 firms starved. Millions of motorists sleeping in queues. The CNG dream is dying — not for lack of money, but for refusal to spend it.
Motorists who hurried to convert their cars to CNG after fuel subsidy removal are now regretting it.
“Sometimes we spend seven to eight hours in line, only to be told gas has finished. I once waited 26 hours and still didn’t get gas,” said Chukwuma Nnadi, a Bolt driver.
“It doesn’t make sense that we are encouraged to use CNG when supply is so unreliable.”
Sola Adeoti, a private driver, said: “There’s always a long queue. I slept over yesterday and spent eight hours just to buy gas that barely lasts a day. This is an everyday struggle.”
For Hassan Abubakar, it was more than frustration — he missed his wife’s delivery.
“I was at the station for three days waiting for gas. My neighbours had to rush my wife to the hospital.”
The CNG programme was supposed to cushion the pain of N900+ petrol after subsidy removal, worsened by the Israel/US/Iran conflict. Instead, it has become a new nightmare — hours lost, income gone.
An MDGIF insider is furious: “The law requires at least four board meetings a year, but only one has been held as the year ends. Their actions are worsening hardship for Nigerians, especially in this election year.”
Efforts to get Adama to explain why the N3trn is locked while Nigerians suffer failed as of press time.
High-Capacity CNG Station by President Tinubu. But in November 2025, NMDPRA itself said the figure was N287bn.
So where is the N3 trillion?
For millions who converted to CNG, filling stations have become bedrooms. And Tinubu’s gas revolution is running on empty.
CREDIT:InsideBusinessNg EXCEPT THE HEADLINE INTRO AND SOME PARAGRAPHS
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