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Lagos health commissioner charges Nigerians to embrace alternative energy sources
Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, has urged Nigerians to embrace alternative sources of fuel in the face of lingering fuel crises across the country.
Akin made the call during an interview on the sideline of a one-day Conference in Lagos on “Journeying and Listening Together: Energy Crisis and Sustainable Lifestyle for Church and State” organized by the Ecology Work Group of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos.
The commissioner, who spoke about the alternative sources of energy geared towards the replacement of fossil fuel, urged Nigerians to embrace the use of solar power, wind energy, hydro energy, biomass energy, tidal energy and geothermal energy.
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According to him, the energy crisis around the world has led to a concern that the world’s demands on the limited natural resources meant to powering industrial society are diminishing as the demand rises.
He highlighted the environmental and economic effects of the situation to be the increase in the energy and electricity cost with gas prices rising by about 47% increase in cost of doing business, unemployment; global warming among others.
The commissioner thus charged the church to become more actively involved in the gospel of sustainable lifestyle that can bring peace to the environment and guarantee abundance of of food and healthy energy.
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