Nigeria won't abandon fossil fuels, adopts gas as transition fuel

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will not abandon fossil fuels and has adopted gas as a transition fuel, Nigeria's oil minister Timipre Sylva said on Tuesday, at a time when some countries are pushing policies to divest from hydrocarbons.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Camillus Eboh; Writing by James Macharia Chege; Editing by Estelle Shirbon)