The lawmaker said the advancement in technology in the area of renewable energy makes the future of fossil fuel bleak.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation, Beni Lar, has called on policymakers in Nigeria to prepare for a post-fossil fuel-dominated world.
“With over four decades of operational existence, this energy think-tank has a strategic role of preparing and guiding the nation into the post-crude oil dominance era that now steers us in the face. In his presentation, the Director General of ECN, Jidare Bala, a professor, lamented the lack of intervention funds from the government since 2009.
“The second is inadequate physical infrastructure at the headquarters. You can see this building is small and we have about 731 staff and if we have our way, we have already had our design where our car park is, we want to have a twelve storey building to be called Nigeria Energy House,” Mr Bala said.Despite years of diversification rhetoric, Nigeria still depends on earning from oil as the main source of foreign currency.
“May I rightly observe that NOTAP occupies a critical place in the scientific advancement of Nigeria or its continued development. At this point, I wish to state without equivocation that the current DG has repositioned the office towards the realisation of its lofty objectives,” she said.