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Nigeria needs about 100,000MW of power - Elumelu

Nigeria needs to increase its electricity generation from about 5,000 to 100,000 Megawatts to power the nation’s economy. This was disclosed by the Chairman of Transcorp Group, Tony Elumelu in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday. According to him, the nation needs to stabilize its transmission lines, provide adequate gas supply and strengthen her payment plans. He said, “Nigeria needs about 100,000 MW to power the economy. It also needs to stabilize the transmission lines and ensure access to gas supply. For Nigerians to heave a sigh of relief in the sector, it needs to boost generation, fix gas supply to GenCos, boost payment of distribution and ensure power generated are taken by DisCos. Here I must commend the CBN Governor because he has helped to maintain peace in the space.

Electricity grid suffers first collapse in 2021

Punch Newspapers Sections ’Femi Asu The nation’s power grid has suffered its first collapse this year, plunging parts of the country into a blackout. Two of the electricity distribution companies in the country, Ikeja Electric Plc, and Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc, disclosed this in messages to their customers through their Twitter handles on Wednesday. It said, “This is to inform you that we experienced a system collapse at 13:58hrs today and this affected all customers on the IE network. However, we are pleased to confirm that supply has been restored to Alimosho, Ogba, and Alausa transmission stations at 14:47hrs.

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