FG Encourages Domestic Use Of Clean Cooking Stoves – The Federal Government of Nigeria is encouraging the usage of clean cooking stoves, as component of the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s special presidential intervention programme.
The government are hopeful that with the development, cutting of trees for firewood and the attendant risks associated with smoke in the kitchen would become a thing of the past.
FG Encourages Domestic Use Of Clean Cooking Stoves
At the commissioning of the clean cooking stoves in the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Nigeria’s Vice President, Namadi Sambo, said the clean stove would help in ensuring that Nigerian women would no longer die of smoke related disease. But they need to adopt the new and chip technology, he stressed.
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Minister of the Environment, Mrs Laurentia Mallam, told reporters that five billion Naira had been released to the Ministry of Environment, for the purchase of the clean cooking stoves for rural women, a project which is expected to gulp 9.2 billion Naira.
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Mrs Mallam also explained that the stoves would be distributed to women in the rural areas, through the state ministries of environment.
