Lack of access to clean cooking poses economic, health and environmental challenges for households, businesses and the country. For more than three decades, the international community has grappled with the seemingly daunting task of reducing the number of people using traditional fuels such as solid biomass for cooking. In the period 2010–2018, the global access deficit has remained almost the same, declining from 3 billion to 2.8 bil lion people (IEA et al, 2020).
This situation is not much different in Nigeria. Statistics show that progress towards clean cooking has been very slow in the period 2011–2018. Clean-cooking access has moved from a very low level of under 5% to about 10% due to new efforts to promote LPG (NBS 2020). From all indications, Nigeria is lagging behind other sub-Saharan African coun tries in providing clean-cooking solutions for households and businesses (World Bank, 2018). As part of the measures to address the cooking-energy challenge, a debate on the import ant drivers for the uptake of clean cooking-energy services has raged on. Analysts have sought to understand energy transition, especially from traditional fuels to cleaner al ternatives.
The dominant thinking has focused largely on socio-economic factors as key determinants for the transition to cleaner cooking solutions (Treiber, 2013). Energy tran sition is thus seen to be driven largely by socio-economic changes rather than a desire for modern fuels
