Energy and Climate Security for Nigeria’s Poor
Today, I took a stroll out to the street of Beijing. Both work and jetlag had me tucked inside since my arrival in the early hours of yesterday. This is my first time in China. And I am excited. I have heard and read much about this new world power. Read more
Executive Director, International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development, ICEED.Mr. Ewah Otu Eleri, says the introduction of ten million clean cooking stoves would reduce the amount of wood that is used for cooking both in the rural and urban parts of the country. Read more
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves a week ago in Abuja launched a national campaign to introduce 10 million fuel-efficient stoves to Nigerian homes and institutions by 2020. Some of the promoters who spoke with Deputy Sunday Editor, Michael Simire, shed light on the initiative. Read more
From the conference rooms of Abuja to the communities in and around Accra, I consistently heard the phrase ‘you are welcome’ during my recent trip to Nigeria and Ghana. Read more
Abuja – Nigeria: "Promoting use of clean cook-stoves represents a diplomatic and development priority for the U.S. Government," says Ambassador Terence P. McCulley at the official launch of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cook-stoves in Abuja on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Read more
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves was launched in Abuja on Tuesday March 20, 2012. The Alliance made up of four federal government agencies, major oil and gas companies such as Shell and Oando as well as donors plan to introduce 10 million clean cookstoves by the year 2020. Read more
A UN-linked body launched a campaign in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at preventing deaths due to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, one of the developing world's worst public health threats. Read more
Relief is on the way for millions of Nigeria’s families struggling to have access to affordable cooking fuels. An influential partnership of key federal government agencies, the private sector and donors have laid out plans to phase out the tradition use of fuel wood in Nigerian homes. Read more
Radha Muthiah, the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will visit Nigeria March 19 – 20. Muthiah will be the keynote speaker at the official launch of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves on Tuesday March 20 at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. Read more
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), a parastatal under the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, has commissioned the installation of an efficient microdistillery (EMD) with a capacity to produce 1,000 liters of ethanol per day from local crops and crop wastes. The EMD will be located in NABDA’s Ogbomosho Bioresource Center. The Center is located on a prime cassava and cashew belt in Ogbomosho Community, Oyo State, Nigeria. Read more
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