The Presidential Initiative on CNG and Electric Vehicles (Pi-CNG & EV) has delivered 20 high-capacity Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) to broaden people transport capacity in Lagos.
The buses were handed over at LAMATA’s leader office in Lagos on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, using IVM and TATA units amid those seen by Nairametrics.
The handover comes a day prior to the Federal Government’s October 1 purpose for Nigerians to launch seeing measurable reductions in community transportation costs by manner of increased utilize of CNG and electric buses.
LAMATA receives 20 CNG buses
Speaking at the handover ceremony, the Managing Administrator/CEO of LAMATA, Engr. Abimbola Akinajo, said the supplementary buses represented another helpful action towards providing Lagos residents using extra effective, budget-cordial, consistent and sustainable society transportation.
- “It is my excellent pleasure to welcome you all to this key occasion, the handover of 20 Compressed Natural Gas buses to operators under the regulatory framework of LAMATA.”
- “This day marks another beneficial stage in our collective efforts to grant Lagos residents including extra streamlined, reasonably priced, trustworthy, and sustainable society transportation,” she said.
Akinajo said the buses would present added capacity to travel commuters, associate communities and endorse economic activities across Lagos, although urging beneficiary operators to deploy and maintain them properly.
Lagos Condition Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said the high-capacity buses could advance additional commuters alongside fewer vehicles and potentially decrease waiting times on the routes where they operate.
Pi-CNG & EV Leader Operations Officer Tosin Coker said Lagos was important to the energy transition in the community transport sector and urged operators to confirm correct maintenance.
Lagos expands CNG bus capacity
The 20 novel buses append to the virtually 150 CNG buses already operating during Lagos’ regulated bus transit structure, according to Akinajo.
The supplementary buses will develop passenger-carrying capacity on routes together with identified capacity gaps, precisely the Ikorodu-TBS corridor, which Akinajo said has high passenger contact for.
Lagos introduced CNG-powered buses into its regulated bus transit mechanism in 2024 as element of efforts to cut reliance on conventional fuels and lesser audience transport operating costs.
Akinajo said the bottom operating costs of CNG and electric buses are helping LAMATA maintain fares during the regulated bus framework from rising despite elevated diesel prices.
According to her, diesel prices have risen from around N950 per litre at the beginning of the year to between N1,950 and N2,100 per litre currently, significantly increasing the operating costs of diesel-powered buses.
She said the use of CNG and electric buses allows LAMATA to administer the elevated operating costs free from passing the entire increase on to commuters throughout elevated fares.
The added buses will increase capacity interior to the regulated bus mechanism as LAMATA faces increased operating costs from rising diesel prices.
Meanwhile, the Lagos Condition Transport Policy targets having 52% of buses in the Bus Brisk Transit mechanism powered by clean energy by 2050.
FG targets reduced transport costs alongside CNG
The handover comes as the Federal Government prepares for its October 1 grade for situation governments to leverage CNG and electric vehicles to decrease transportation costs.
President Bola Tinubu announced in August that status governors had agreed, under the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, to take measures to lesser fares by taking advantage of the bottom operating costs linked using CNG and electric vehicles.
Tinubu subsequently cited savings recorded from CNG-powered society transport in numerous states.
In Kaduna, he said 100 CNG buses carried around 3.2 million passengers in their earliest year and saved commuters greater than N3.5 billion. He moreover cited fare reductions linked to CNG and replacement-energy transport in Oyo, Enugu, Plateau, Abuja, Niger and Abia.
CNG conversion reaches 120,000 vehicles
The Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Support is financing extra than 100 gas projects, including 15 CNG mother stations and 86 daughter stations.
The government plans to attach 500 CNG refuelling stations to the 500 previously sequential by the Support, bringing the planned nationwide rollout to 1,000 stations.
The Federal Government had additionally targeted the conversion of one million commercial petrol vehicles to CNG by 2027.
Information on the Pi-CNG/EV web site shows that concerning 120,000 vehicles have so far been converted, despite the initiative attracting additional than $2.5 billion in investment.
The CNG initiative was introduced in 2023 following the removal of the petrol subsidy, alongside the government positioning compressed natural gas as a cheaper and cleaner option for transportation.
Source: Lagos receives 20 CNG buses as FG targets lower transport fares
