Nigerians are now enjoying ‘almost 24 hours’ power supply – Fashola

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says some cities in Nigeria can now boast of constant power supply.

He said this on the Sunrise Daily programme of Channels Television on Wednesday.

“Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five, some have 10 and there are still outages,” he said.

He said the constant power supply in some states is due to the increase in the transmission capacity.

The transmission capacity has grown, he said, adding that the figure was about 8,100 watts as at December 2018.

“The generation capacity is also increasing,” he said.

“It is a value chain where the distribution is not matching up the available power and from time to time, there are slacks,” Mr Fashola said.

He said the Ministry of Power has moved forward but needs to implement the short term goals it set.

“The short term goals are incremental power and stable supply in some places,” he said.

“The government has decided that as 40 per cent holder of everything in the distribution of power, we have our programme to invest N72 billion which will involve installing transformers and all of that,” he said.

– Premium Times