Despite Nigeria’s enormous gas reserves, the consumption per capita of domestic cooking gas or Liquefied Petroleum Gas remains low relative to the population. It’s ironical that the country produces for export and imports for domestic consumption, reportsMama Obinna, a widow and mother of three, lives in Oko Ewe, a sleepy community in Ogun State with her kids.
Mama Obinna is but one out of many others across the country, especially in the rural areas that do not use LPG. They rather cook with fire wood thereby fuelling tree felling, leading to desertification and climate change. The group said about three billion people rely on solid biomass or coal for cooking and heating, and smoke from such fuel use is estimated to cause four deaths every minute. Universal access will require a multi-pronged approach: advanced cook stoves for biomass and other solid fuels, natural gas for urban households in countries that have or are developing an extensive gas pipeline network, biogas, and LPG.
“Even in an efficient market with light tax on LPG, cooking and heating water with LPG would require upwards of $15 every month at today’s LPG prices. As such, LPG is unlikely to be the fuel of the poor,” it said. “We have watched the continuous spike in the price of cooking gas, moving from N4 million to N5 million for a 20MT truck to the current price of N5.3 million within a month interval.
“This brings to the fore our persistent request for the full domestication of LPG supply in the country to guard against price manipulations by international market and foreign exchange.
Buhari said the project was a follow-up to the commitment of the administration towards making the year as Nigeria’s Year of the Gas. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said the project underscored the commitment of NNPC in eliminating gas flares while increasing value realisation from gas.
This is just plainly pathetic. Same way people are superstitious about COVID-19, they're also superstitious about use of LPG in their homes