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By Adewale Sanyaolu
Nigeria has taken its clean-cooking drive to the global investment stage, with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Mr. Ekperikpe Ekpo, leading the pitch for structured financing to scale up liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) access to five million households by 2030.
Speaking at a high-level dialogue on Advancing Energy Access and Clean Cooking during the 2026 Ministerial Meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, Ekpo said Nigeria’s clean-cooking programme is not a stand-alone social scheme, but a commercially-anchored, gas-expansion strategy backed by presidential mandate and embedded within sweeping sector reforms.
According to the minister, the initiative is firmly tied to the Decade of Gas agenda and the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which he said had strengthened regulatory certainty, enhanced transparency and improved investor confidence across the gas-value chain.
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“Nigeria’s clean cooking agenda is built around a clear presidential directive to deliver a nationwide LPG grassroots expansion programme targeting five million households by 2030.”
He stressed that the target was central to Nigeria’s broader strategy of reducing energy poverty while simultaneously expanding domestic gas utilisation.
Ekpo emphasised that the programme was designed to deepen LPG penetration nationwide, stimulate domestic cylinder manufacturing, expand storage and bottling capacity, and accelerate last-mile distribution – particularly in rural and underserved communities.
