Department of Business and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, OlabisiOnabanjo University, Ago -Iwoye

Abstract

There are several legal instruments and court judgments relating to the energy sector in Nigeria. The country is also a signatory to some vital United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on energy, yet the availability, affordability and accessibility of clean energy in the country to the teeming masses of people in the country is abysmally low. Among other factors, this work identified energy illiteracy as one of the potent factors militating against the enthronement of clean renewable energy in Nigeria at a level that it is available and affordable to the people. This gap in the law in theory and practical reality informed this paper. The negative effects of the gap are numerous cutting across the social, health, educational, agricultural, cultural, recreational and other strata of the society. This paper submits that the lofty ideals contained in the laws can be brought to reality through energy education among other reasons