FIJ
About 67% of Nigerian households still use fuelwood to cook, FIJ has gathered. This was reported in the maiden edition of the Nigeria Residential Energy Demand Survey Report published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday.
According to the report, 40.7% of these households buy their fuelwood, 39.0% chop it themselves, and 18.9% get it through other means.
These numbers don’t exactly scream progress when compared to Nigeria’s goals under the Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) initiative and the 2021 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of the Paris Agreement.
The intention was to cut traditional firewood use by 50% by 2020 and 80% by 2030, while promoting cleaner options like improved cookstoves and LPG (cooking gas).
In its 2021 NDC target, Nigeria is set to have 48% of the population cooking with LPG and 13% using improved stoves by 2030. But the available figures are a far cry from that target.
Per the report, Sokoto State leads in fuelwood buying, with 71.2% of households forking out cash to buy wood. On the other hand, Bauchi tops the list of states where people prefer to cut and collect fuelwood themselves, with a whopping 65.4% going the do-it-yourself route.
