{"id":167541,"date":"2025-06-27T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-appoints-ismael-ahmed-chairman-presidential-cng-initiative"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:24:00","slug":"tinubu-appoints-ismael-ahmed-chairman-presidential-cng-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-appoints-ismael-ahmed-chairman-presidential-cng-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu appoints Ismael Ahmed Chairman, Presidential CNG Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu has announced the appointment of Barrister Ismael Ahmed as the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi).<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Bayo Onanuga, presidential media aide, on Friday noted that Ahmed will coordinate the operations of the presidential initiative, which is designed to alleviate the effects of removing fuel subsidies by offering cheaper, more affordable and cleaner energy options.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency maintained that the PCNGi is a component of the Tinubu administration\u2019s palliative intervention programme.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed, 45, is an alumnus of the University of Abuja, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2005. He was called to the bar in 2006 after attending the Nigerian Law School, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, he went to Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, receiving a master\u2019s degree in international relations, communications, and diplomacy in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed served as former President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s senior special assistant on the National Social Investment Programme between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu has announced the appointment of Barrister Ismael Ahmed as the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi). A statement by Bayo Onanuga, presidential media aide, on Friday noted that Ahmed will coordinate the operations of the presidential initiative, which is designed to alleviate the effects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-167541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu appoints Ismael Ahmed Chairman, Presidential CNG Initiative - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-appoints-ismael-ahmed-chairman-presidential-cng-initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu appoints Ismael Ahmed Chairman, Presidential CNG Initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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