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.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-to-buy-cooking-stoves-with-n9-2bn/

The headline is misleading. Nice one from the Govt.





CHECK OUT MY SIGNATURE!!!

Please how is the stove going to be shared?

Oga Sambo wey my own share of the contract now?

You can checkout this props:
https://www.nairaland.com/1941142/

I fear o....All my mind went to before was mama Piss cooking stove!

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Nigeria Economy is in Trouble................But sheybi they said Okonjo Iwela has PHD in Econs,,,,,,,,Can't she advise the FG that that Stove will/can never be well maintained by the target population................& that importation of everything is not good for us especially now d@ the dollar is murdering the Naira .........Those Stove are gona be imported From South Africa & Assembled here..........................When did FG start sharing STOVE ?......What happened to making our GAS affordable and accessible to those in the rural areas ?.................................Must we import ?.......Must we waste money ??..........Now how will those in the rural areas maintain this new technology when its even hard 4 them to maintain the conventional kerosene stove...................FG needs Deliverance !!!!

This is a government that its policy affect everybody, employment will be provided and the stoves will be distributed for free. Ride on GeJ you are my ROBIN HOOD

Even in the face of dwindling revenues, this government just can't put an end to its squandermania. Stoves for 9Billion and you say Jonathan knows how to run an economy!! I guess when the cloud of this shiitstorm they are gathering breaks and starts to rain, they wouldn't go looking for whom to blame.

This is just madness.

Haba OP, your choice of topic has anti-Govt tone. Maybe you think stove na stove after all. But know that this stove is a special one, highly environmental friendly.

9ja leaders stealing since 1999... how much come be 1 stove?? i blv dt 1day bush meat will still catch d hunter... tired of ds otuoke man we just need change but not PDP in APC oo eg Atiku dt use 2billion to buy bread during all africa game (COJA).. God save our land

Stove of Life!
I hope this stove wont cook people's destiny? LOL

I shake my yansh for this government!!!! These leaders are as useless as busted tyre in a desert.

Stomach infrastructure has now gone large scale

Edited:1 billion budget for Gucci rice and N9.2B stove to cook it!!!!!!

HAh!!! Sopona ni yo pa gbogbo yin ni Abuja. 9.2 Bn fun Stove. E beru olorun o! hah!

Jona na wa

9.2bn naira to import something and naira has just been devalued! why cant they commision an understudy of that project and see how we can produce it locally, of course with improvement and collaboration of the inventor!

Yeh! Aye mi o. / \ wetin mama pees wan cook this tym

So wake me up when this is over..... Am wiser though.


Assuming both stove and wonder pack costs the same, cost of production per unit is 9200000000/768000=11979. Approx 12,000.

Now i wonder what a barely literate rural woman wants with such a stove when some could barely even afford a meal.

Anyway... People like my grandmother will catalogue it is her antique wardrobe for her grandsons yet unborn.


And again, i wonder whats rocket science in stove development that design can't be given to undergraduates while development outsourced to local fabricators.

Anyway, A leopard doesn't shed its spots.

Once clueless, always clueless until Jesus comes back again.


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BY SAYING STOVE, I HOPE TO HEAVENS THEY DON'T MEAN KEROSENE STOVES.

IF YES, THEN PLEASE TELL GEJ TO POCKET HIS STOVE COZ IT IS LIKE PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE OR.... WHERE AND HOW DO YOU EXPECT THOSE WOMEN TO SHELL OUT MONEY FOR N150 PER LITER KEROSENE? THAT'S EVEN IF THEY ARE LUCKY TO GET IT AT FILLING STATIONS.

MTCHEE.... CLUELESSNESS REDEFINED

Somebody wake me when this clueless govt is gone. Its a bazaar I guess. Belt tightening ni belt tightening ko

Campaign mobilisation at the grassroot level is now on.

Mediocrity now celebrated in Nigeria with official approval.

With fall in revenue, these guys still depleting what is left to bribe the masses, I give up.

Countless stove and efficient cooking methods has been prototype by numerous indigenous companies, Addis Engineering, Techo-Quip, Advance -Tech and countless Nigerian fabricators and so many similar projects in polytechnics and universities.
Yet this clueless government will splash 9bn Naira to enrich the South African economy and leave our own designers, fabicators, and craftmen unappreciated.
What is in a stove? you can call a design contest by giving out specifications e.g design a stove that will use 50% less fuel ans produce 40% more heat and give out 95% less smoke. Same way US government will give specifications to it's defense contractors like produce fither planes that can active 100,000 Ft ceiling, top speed of mach 5 and range of 3000 miles while consuming 30% less fuel.

We know it is campaign material for PDP paid for by the FG, but is it too much to make it count? Call like 10 fabricator firms, attach a proffessor and researchers to each firm, give them matching grant of like 10 million naira, and 6 months time and see the wonder that will be produced plus the knowledge and know-how that will be resident in-country. The best 1 or 2 designs will then be standard specification to be masses produced by fabricators all over the country.That knowledge spurned by foresight will be available to develop other simple devices.
We keep displaying the fact that we are clueless people and are not hungry for development. I am sure even Ghana or Benin Republic will not throw away it's money like that.

Then 18000 wonder bags?! are we real ?

Hey look at how this useless man lavish our money the stove that will not well distributed. I also perceive that jonathan want to use that opportunity to win the heart of innocet people in the rural area because of 2015 general election you will see jonathan image in that stove

This is shameful .

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Lool

I was expecting that the use of stove would be phased out!

Invest in efficient use of gas instead of this trash

Lol. I too must apply for free stove

National Clean Cooking Scheme. Another scheme for money looting, like they said sometimes ago about buying phones for Farmers.



Nigeria I hail thee =D =D

Okay cool.
Let's see.

Campaign money