Nigeria has been accorded the largest economy in Africa and one of Africa's burgeoning economies. However, a high percentage of the population lives in extreme poverty and is largely rural, accounting for about 51% of the total, approximately 96 million people in 2016. This glaring reality is most evident in the undisputed urban and rural divide with a huge mass of the population living in these rural areas characterised by underdevelopment and limited access to electricity and modern energy services. Energy access is an indispensable instrument such that can be used to achieve great strides in human development, better the economy and enable sustainable development. The present work reviews the state of the art on Nigerian energy access studies and provides an overview of the peer-reviewed literature spanning energy planning, electrification planning, rural electrification, renewable resource potential, energy & electricity access impact, and policies & reforms. It delineates the narrative in existing literature and propounds a new trajectory for future work. This study was facilitated by an extensive systematic literature review which has resulted in an analysis of 90 relevant articles out of a total of 104 articles from a period of 1978–2019. The review reveals no consensus on a standardized framework to synergize the already available strategies and methodologies for improving Nigeria's energy access. An integrated framework that embodies a multi-disciplinary study is introduced and forms the foundation upon which the authors of this paper are conducting further research to conceptualize a unified road map for energy planning, system design, and operation with renewable energy integration geared towards improving localized energy access in Nigeria.

尼日利亚被评为非洲最大的经济体和非洲新兴经济体之一。但是，很大一部分人口生活在极端贫困中，并且大部分是农村人口，占总人口的51％，2016年约为9600万人。这一明显的现实在无可争议的巨大城乡差距中尤为明显居住在这些农村地区的人口中，以发展不足，电力和现代能源服务机会有限为特征。能源获取是必不可少的工具，可用于实现人类发展的重大进步，改善经济并实现可持续发展。本工作回顾了尼日利亚能源获取研究的最新状况，并概述了有关能源规划的同行评审文献，电气化计划，农村电气化，可再生资源潜力，能源和电力使用影响以及政策和改革。它描绘了现有文学中的叙事，并为未来的工作提出了新的轨迹。这项广泛的系统文献综述促进了这项研究，该文献对1978年至2019年期间的104篇文章中的90篇相关文章进行了分析。审查显示，在标准化框架上没有达成共识，以协同利用现有的战略和方法来改善尼日利亚的能源获取。引入了一个体现多学科研究的集成框架，该框架为本文的作者进行进一步研究以为能源规划，系统设计，