President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday in Abuja that his administration will give maximum attention to enhancing power supply in Nigeria.
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The president, after a briefing by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, said that his administration had already identified the critical problems in Nigeria’s power sector and was taking appropriate actions to address them.
The President said that his administration had also prioritized certain measures in its action plan to boost electricity supply in Nigeria, because it was convinced that steady electricity will set the country into faster socio-economic development.
“The problems besetting our power sector are not difficult to identify. Therefore, priorities can be easily set in order to tackle them." the President said
“The problems are more with transmission than generation, and we equally need to secure the power infrastructure round the country. We will address all these issues,” Buhari assured.
Power generation in Nigeria is currently peaked at 4,600 MW and Igali assured that gas was available to boost it to 5,500 MW in a short time, however available electricity infrastructure needed to be expanded to accommodate additional generation
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