•Cooking gas scarcity Over 20 million Nigerian households continue to rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking despite a decade of policy push, rising domestic LPG production and over $500 million in private investment, as affordability constraints and weak last-mile distribution stall the country’s clean cooking transition. Although more tha...
Nigerians in urban areas may have returned to the most affordable cooking fuels – charcoal and firewood, due to the increase in the price of cooking gas. Charcoal and firewood were used by mostly the locals and people living in semi-urban areas before the advent of cooking gas, reports Vanguard. However, when cooking gas came […]
•Cooking with firewood Nigerians, especially at the grassroots, have been urged not to resort to the use of firewood as a result of the economic hardship and recent hike in the process of cooking gas. The warning came from researchers and climate change advocates at a programme held in Abuja yesterday to discuss ‘Maximising energy […]...
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