By Ifelayo Joshua | January 18, 2026
The Sensitisation/Demonstration of Clean Cooking Technologies and Market Fair was organised by Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking and other Stakeholders at the Wuse Market in Abuja on Saturday.
Ms Chioma Ome, Country Director Nigeria Solar Sisters said that it was important that the unhealthy cooking habits were eliminated from the public to safe guard public health and the effect of climate change.
“The use of efficient cooking stoves reduces any impact on climate change. Cooking Technologies helps to reduce climate change challenges.
“This efficient cooking stoves use very little amount of charcoal by 70 per cent which makes it an adaptation mechanism.
She worried that unhealthy cooking habits are still prevalent both in urban and rural areas, people still cook with open fires and three stone stands.
Ome emphasised on the need to imbibe which any of the efficient, clean cooking methods or technologies.
“It is important that we do market fair like this to sensitise the public on the dangers of open fire cooking, traditional cooking, and expose them to healthier forms of cooking.
“People need to be aware that their mode of cooking is not healthy for them. This clean cooking technologies reduce finances, it is safe, good and affordable and is even consuming finance from them.
She said that the stoves are affordable if compared with other forms of cooking energy’s impact on health, life, also with the income that you have to save.
Ms Onyeka Ugwulebor, a representative of Roshan Renewables said that the clean cooking technologies are welcomed developments that everyone would like to key into.
“We have affordable stoves here and I believe that a lot of people want to rush to get, have such opportunity at this moment and grab them.
“For Roshan stoves, the cheapest is 7,000 and the highest is 25,000. So it is easy to buy and easy to use.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that charcoal briquettes are compressed blocks of biomass (like wood waste, palm kernel shells, or sawdust) mixed with a binder (like starch) and pressed into uniform shapes, providing a consistent, long-burning, and often smokeless fuel for cooking, heating, and industrial uses, offering an efficient alternative to firewood or lump charcoal.
Ugwulebor stated the advantages of the stoves are smokeless, environmental friendliness and it doesn’t consume much charcoal briquettes, affordable and easy for people to use without having any health issues.
