…Says Nigeria has assumed position of pacesetter in renewable energy capacity development across continent
President Bola Tinubu, Tuesday, inaugurated Africa’s first renewable energy college, the Barefoot Renewable Energy College, Osara, (BARECKS), and the Green Hydrogen Research and Demonstration Pilot Plant in Kogi State.
The President described the citadel of learning as a “world-class edifice”, completed to international standards.
He noted that while the difficulty confronting Nigeria, a country “abundantly endowed with sunlight, wind, biomass and water,” had been “converting its endowment into megawatts, and megawatts into jobs,” that difficulty will now be addressed by the college.
The President was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, at the commissioning of the college, at the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State, according to Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, office of the Vice President.
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