Tajudeen Esan, mechanical engineer, poses for a photograph in a gas storage used to convert cars to gas combustion in City Mechanic, a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) center Lagos, on November 12, 2024. Authorities are pushing CNG as the silver bullet to end Nigeria's perennial fuel shortages and a five-fold price hike since President Bola Tinubu abolished fuel subsidies in May 2023. In September 2023, Tinubu established the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI) to drive CNG adoption and ease Nigeria into a cleaner energy era. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)