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’93m Nigerians don’t have access to electricity’
A Non-Governmental Organization, Clean Tech Hub, has said 93 million Nigerians representing 55 per cent of the nation’s population do not have access to electricity.
Clean Tech Hub is an organisation which focuses on research, policy development and consumer awareness on climate resilience.
Speaking during a workshop on promoting citizens access to clean energy solution in Nigeria “A Gender Approach” the facilitator, Mark Amaza said that 93 million Nigerians lacked access to electricity.
He said the figure represents 55 per cent of the total number of Nigerians that lacked access to electricity in the country.
Amaza said that the workshop was organised to increase awareness on the negative impacts of the use of the various sources of dirty energy, socially and mentally.
“The workshop was also organised to create a transition from the use of inefficient energy sources to adoption of clean energy sources.
“We are here in Kano to enlight people and food vendors to make them tap the abundant energy opportunity which is clean and healthy through INNOVATIONS, solution, support and awareness while on the other hand to help them avoid the risk associated with using dirty fuel,” he said.
According to him, many people still rely on fuelwood for cooking, pushing the rate of health risk and deforestation to alarming level.
According to him, training women, particularly food vendors across the country will drastically reduce the high demand for fuelwood for cooking and other industrial use with its accompanied health risk and smoke related illnesses.
NAN reports that Some of the participants interviewed said that over half of the country’s forests have been cut down, predominantly for fuelwood used in the last 12 years, a development exacerbated by rapid population growth.
They said that the training was timely considering the high rate of smoke related illness from use of firewood in the country.
They also commended the NGO for championing renewable energy system.
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According to them, decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions have shown potential as a key solution in addressing this disparity.
NAN
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