The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the purchase of N9.2billion worth of clean cook stoves and wonder bags for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme.

Wonder bag is a non-electric slow cooker invented by Sarah Collins, ‎a south African eco-entreprenuer, who


came up with the idea six years ago during a power cut, when she decided to keep her dinner cooking by surrounding the pan with cushions.

The council also awarded a contract of N60.9billion to an indigenous firm, KaKatar CE Limited, for the provision of engineering infrastructure for Kyami District, Zone C, Abuja.

Supervising Minister of Information, Dr. Nurudeen Muhammed; Minister of Environment, Mrs. Lawrecia Mallam; and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammed, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

Muhammed said the N9.2billion inclusive of Value Added Tax was approved for the procurement of 750,000 units of clean cook stove and 18,000 wonder bags.

He said the stoves are expected to be delivered by Messrs Integra Renewable Energy Services Limited within a period of 12 weeks.

He noted that the stoves which will be assembled locally, will provide jobs to Nigerians among other benefits.

The minister said, “The National Clean Cooking Scheme is an aggressive drive to engender clean cooking culture amongst the poor rural women, to reduce and possibly eliminate cooking with solid fossil which is detrimental to health.

“The scheme is expected to provide 20 million clean stoves over a five-year period at the rate of four million stoves yearly which will be distributed without charge.

“It will also reduce incessant felling of trees which exposes the country to ecological problems.

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as you like may you be blessed in Jesus amen

I just think its a problem of misplaced priorities!....I stand too be corrected pls.

And I am wondering why we didn't use that money to empower a team of graduates to manufacture the stoves too.

Or better still buy the right from the southafrican inventor and make ours.

Or again, reverse engineer the product like the chinese will do and make ours also.

Or infact sponsor researches and projects of our nigerian students and come up with an indigenous way to solve the problem

4,000,000 units per year is alarming. We could have done it ourselves.

We need a spark of intelligence in our leadership.

9.2billion Naira worth of stoves? '
This government sef

Imagine building a stove factory with 9.2 billion naira!!!
Imagine building a state of art hospital with 9.2 billion naira!!!
Imagine building state of art informations technology schools in 4 geographical zones of Nigeria!!
Imagine federal govt investing 9.2 billion naira on agriculture in 4 geographical zones in Ngeria!!!

Our govt spending 9.2b naira on stoves to have 9 million mama put maybe.

N9.2b for a South African product. Imagine supporting our scientists with just a fraction of that to come up with energy conserving inventions? How sustainable will this be after the stoves gets spoilt? Then they go back to firewood? This is why our economy will never develop to a full fledged industrial economy; the lust for finished items without any interest in developing our technology. Note this is another huge wastage of forex.

Stomach infrastructure

National cooking clean scheme

Minister of comedy


Nigerians, I hope you now understand why the world takes you for a joke.

Hmmm,this jonathan self,abeg make febuary come quick