FG, UN PARTNER TO TRAIN 120 YOUTHS ON GREEN ENERGY

Tapping into it’s new thinking on producing items that can be locally sourced for the consumption of Nigeria’s population, the federal government is to partners with the United Nation Habitat to train some Nigerian youths on clean energy for home use. The partnership for empowerment captures capacity building in energy technologies for production of clean stoves and lantern that will serve the energy needs of rural poor and other areas where renewable energy will complement power needs.

About one hundred and twenty youths from twenty states of the federation will benefit from the business and economic empowerment at the Hands-on Training on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies, Green Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development which the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development is facilitating.

Explaining the rationale for the partnership for the training, Chief Officer, Urban Energy Unit, UN-Habitat Kenya, says the youth are being trained in a blend of entrepreneurship and technologies to developed skill sets in production of renewable energy as alternatives to replace kerosene stoves and lantern which has proven dangerous in some cases.