The oil-producing giant of Africa is fast-becoming an epicenter of Green House Gases emissions and there will be a 16% drastic increase by 2040 if care isn’t taken. This study provides an overview of status of energy transition and climate change awareness with a focus in Northern part of Nigeria. A research questionnaire was designed to receive responses with respect to our research questions after a thorough review literature. The responses were analyzed that presented structured results. It has been identified that 51% of the people participated in this questionnaire exercise are within the age bracket of 20-30. Within, we found 52% of the people consume firewood as their source of energy.energy transition has become a catchphrase and fast-becoming a trendy topic globally. Access to energy remains imminent in both developed and developing countries. This, however, appears within the discourse of energy transition – giving an absolute attention as a significant instrument for economic development. The need to balance wide-gap energy access differences which considerably increase the level of alternate sources of energy in cities and remotes areas today becomes spontaneously inevitable. As it stands, each country hungrily craving for socio-economic development, in Africa or even around world, must design its road to energy-transition minding the pros and cons coupled with the previous lessons of energy transitions.