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The Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, said, its programme, from extraction to education has been specifically designed to reach out to over 10,000 youths across a 4-year period from four states in the Niger Delta, namely, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States.
He said this at the 3rd Youth Environmental Camp Meeting with its theme: "From Extraction to Education" held in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Dr. Ojo said since 2018, they have successfully trained over 6,000 youths on developing their business model, renewable energy entrepreneurship, repair and installation of solar gadgets and the fabrication of clean energy saving cook stoves.
Ojo added that they have also trained over 300 secondary school teachers and produced Environmental Education and Renewable Energy Manual that is being deployed for training in the over 60 renewable energy school clubs set up across the four states.
Speaking on the theme of the event, Ojo said from "Extraction to Education" focuses on how to move from the present carbonised economy to a decarbonized one, stressing that as leaders of tomorrow, they need to be properly equipped for the energy transition that our government and politicians are currently grappling with and quite unable to resolve.
He said the youths must stand in the gap and see that the climate change phenomenon as an opportunity to address a national and global problem just as he charged them not to allow Nigeria to be a dumping ground for substandard renewable energy gadgets.
He said they must resist the temptations of all forms of energy colonialism playing out in Nigeria and Africa because the nation stands the risk of energy colonialism if renewable technologies remain the exclusive preserve for industrialise nations.
In his goodwill message, Director General, National Power Training Institute of Nigeria, (NAPTIN), Mr. Ahmed Bolaji Nagode, said they are currently collaborating with ERA in training some youths in the Niger Delta to be equipped with the requisite competence for their empowerment contribution to social responsibilities.
Nagode said in 2019, 32 participants were trained on Solar PV and in 2020, they are expecting another 20 participants.
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