Publisher of Oriental News Nigeria Online, Mrs. Yemisi Izuora and President, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Maureen Chigbo have called for the adoption of gas as a transition fuel and for household uses.
They spoke in separate interviews during Oriental News Nigeria 2025 conference in Lagos with the “Integrating Nigeria’s gas potential into strategic energy transition initiatives.”
Izuora, who was the convener of the summit, explained that the topic was meticulously chosen after critical analysis as according to her, the organization supports the energy transition initiative of the federal government. She explained that based on that, the organisation brought stakeholders and experts to discuss the transition initiative at the summit.
She emphasized that the focus in the transition is gas, adding that gas plays a key role in powering the electricity sector and in transportation through CNG, combustion, even at home, with the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
She said: “So we try to promote this initiative to better the economy of Nigeria. To promote gas usage, the governments should give license to more gas producers to bring down the price of gas. Governments should educate people more on the importance of using gas. This one that they are talking, they just go to cities and they’re not really going to the villages, the rural areas, to educate and make it available in the rural areas. If you go to some rural areas, gas is very, very expensive. Some people do not even have it in the rural areas.”
Izuora, lamented that many people in the rural areas do not have access to gas adding that even in urban areas, gas is not affordable to many households.
President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Maureen Chibu, called on relevant authorities and stakeholders to speed up the move towards the transition to energy.
Noting that women will be the most impacted by clean energy, she stated that it is important to expand the usage of clean energy.
She said: “If you look at the numbers, about 2.3 billion people worldwide are affected by unclean energy. And on this number, you have more women and children suffering. They are the most vulnerable. And we talked earlier on when you were, earlier on the speakers, earlier on, we talked about multitasking of women. And these women are impacted negatively.
“You can imagine that all the things they would be doing, they would not be able to do it. Those who would go to work and then still come back, and then go to fetch firewood, and then waste the time they would have devoted to doing other businesses that would uplift their families. So, it is important, as the panelists take their position to discuss, to suggest ways forward for this transition to clean energy, for women to be better off.”