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Lighting Up Lives:

Empowering Nigerian Women

Through Energy Access

Lande Abudu
Standalone Solar Home System (SHS) Component Lead

Reducing Nigeria’s energy access gap is a continuing effort. An estimated 92 million people lack access to
electricity. To put this in perspective, that’s roughly the combined population of our nearest neighbours -
Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Nigeria being almost equally split between females and males; we can infer
those 46 million Nigeria females lack access to electricity. This energy poverty disproportionately affects
women and girls. This is why the work we do at Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) is crucial, particularly
addressing this issue, and empowering women through energy solutions.

Through our initiatives, we’ve been able to deploy over one million solar
home systems to underserved Nigerians, approximately 400,000 going to
female-led households.

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