Holistic Green Transition for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospect of Research and Human Metamorphism

Abstract Nigeria's green transition program is severely bed-rocked by insurmountable socio-economic enigmas which had severely hampered the search for a dogged and sustainably holistic developmental target of achieving perhaps net-zero emissions by 2060. This is due to politically deliberate and inconsistent allocation of resources to the research end users. The generation of over 30,000 MW of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 seems to be a mirage while the conversion of about 80% of vehicles to electric by 2050 still remains an uphill task because of non availability of indigenized proto-type workshops powered by local research institutes. The worst case scenario is the current massive commercialization of gas resources until 2030. This is a devastating and highly restrictive bottlenecked policy to the purported gradual phasing out of fossil fuel, which is the bane of a holistic and futuristic research in green transition at all levels. The aim of this erudition is to carry out a holistic green transition for sustainable development in Nigeria: challenges and prospects of research and human development. A thorough retrospective analysis of green transition in Nigeria was done with aid of published data resources from relevant sites and organizations. Results shows an outline of current challenging trends for the past ten years and suggestion of possible prospects to a sustainable human capital development to power our green transition program. The new model developed shows the new pathways to hinge on for advancing this course.