Building Resilience in Nigeria’s Energy Sector for Sustainable Development

Abstract

 Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. Incidentally, Nigeria’s energy sector is the heart beat of the nation. This paper therefore analyses resilience building efforts in Nigeria’s energy sector with a view to identifying the specific efforts of government, private or non-government organizations, assessing the level of such efforts and looking into any form of support that can enhance the efforts in question. This paper particularly noted there have been some significant efforts from certain private establishments and NGOs. The paper concluded that for Nigeria’s energy sector to be resilient, the current resilience building efforts must be enhanced and sustained by government.

 Keywords: Resilience, energy sector, Nigeria, sustainable development