President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said Nigeria had assumed the position of pacesetter in renewable energy capacity development across the continent.
Tinubu made the declaration while commissioning Africa’s first renewable energy college, the Barefoot Renewable Energy College, alongside the Green Hydrogen Research and Demonstration Pilot Plant at the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State.
Represented at the event by Vice President Kashim Shettima, the President said the college addresses one of Nigeria’s most persistent structural challenges by converting the country’s abundant natural resources in sunlight, wind, biomass and water into megawatts, and megawatts into jobs.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications in the Office of the Vice President, Stanley Nkwocha, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday titled, ‘President Tinubu Commissions Africa’s First Renewable Energy College in Kogi.’
“This is the first institution of its kind on the African continent, modelled on
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