The Federal government is calling on the people, especially women, to adopt the alternative of cooking with cleaner energy, over firewood and kerosene stove. It says household air pollution is also another contributing factor to climate change.
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, made this known in Yola, during the flag-off of the distribution of cooking gas cylinders, and tree planting exercise.
According to the World Health Organization, WHO, annually, about four million people die prematurely from respiratory-related illnesses, attributed to household air pollution from cooking with firewood, kerosene stoves, and solid fuels.
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The Ministry of Women Affairs has taken the campaign against these practices to Adamawa state, advocating for an alternative method of cooking, by using cleaner household energy.
The minister also revealed the plans of the federal government to combat deforestation, through planting of twenty five million trees in one year.
The seven hundred and seventy four local government areas in the country are expected to be supplied with one thousand gas cylinders each.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
