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Home Agribusiness How fossil fuel dependency keeps Nigerians in darkness

How fossil fuel dependency keeps Nigerians in darkness

September 12, 2025

The Lethaba Power Station outside Sasolburg in the Free State in South Africa. Image from Flickr. License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Despite holding 37 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and ranking as the world’s sixth-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas in 2021, Nigeria has one of the lowest per capita electricity consumption rates in the world….

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