Bennett Oghifo
Representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the cooking energy sector have agreed to develop a clean cooking policy to promote clean cooking in Nigeria.
According to data, cooking with unclean energy source like firewood or charcoal leads to serious health problems like acute lower respiratory infection in children. It causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease and lung cancer. “Smoke from the kitchen in Nigeria leads to 78,000 premature deaths and about 55 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents are emitted from the same source.”
This was the outcome of a clean cooking governance workshop funded by Heinrich Boll Stiftung with the theme “Improving Clean Cooking Policies and Institutional Framework in Nigeria,” held in Abuja, recently.
Nigeria’s regulatory agencies include the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Insurance Deposit Corporation (NIDC), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
In the report by Daily Trust, the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation noted that the low service delivery might be attributed to failure of informed analysis of a situation; inappropriate supervision; jurisdictional overlap among different bodies; political failure and inadequate resources for a regulator to sufficiently address a problem. All these mentioned can indeed hamper performance, but what are the regulatory agencies doing to move past the bottlenecks to deliver on their mandat
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Renewable energy deals with power generation from hydro and
gas-fired thermal power plants. There are various renewable energy
resources such as solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower, etc. They
are used as an alternative to the most commonly used sources of
energy such as coal. Renewable energy offers improved environmental
and health quality as it does not pose health risks. There are laws
enacted to regulate renewable energy in Nigeria, which will be
discussed below.
The few laws briefly discussed below provide a legal framework
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