Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola said the Buhari Government has fulfilled its promise of power supply through generation of additional electricity to Nigerians since 2015.
Fashola spoke at a news conference in Abuja on Monday.

Fashola, who presented his third year progress report said federal government at inception of the current administration promised to improve electricity supply via incremental, stable and ultimately uninterrupted power supply.

“With regard to our mandate on power supply, I promised that we will improve on the gas supply, increase the transmission capacity, pay Ministry Departments and Agency (MDA) debts and generally improve your experience with power supply.

“First by getting incremental power, then proceed to stable power and hopefully reach uninterrupted power.
“I am happy to report that we have walked our talk, and we have delivered visible results and recorded qualitative progress.“

He said government had improved on what it met in 2015 by increasing generation from 4000MW to 7000MW, transmission from 5000MW to 7000MW and distribution from 2,690MW to 5,222MW.
According to the minister, efforts were still on to deliver additional power to Nigerians.

“Our work is clearly not finished, and we are still in the process of delivering additional generation from Kaduna power plant, 215MW, Afam IV plant, 240MW, Kashimbilla 40MW, Gurara 30MW, Dadinkowa 29MW.“
He said government was also in final stage of providing power supply to nine universities and 15 markets.

Fashola said two big hydro power plants of 700MW in Zungeru and 3,050MW in Mambilla were also work-in-progress.

The Minister said to further improve transmission of power, 90 transmission projects were on-going across the nation with recent completion of Apo, Mayo Belwa, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Odogunyan and Ejigbo transmission lines.

On construction of distribution infrastructure, Fashola said over 100 injection sub-stations was been constructed, adding that a distribution expansion programme to be funded by the federal government had reached advanced state of procurement.

He, however noted that there were still Nigerians who were yet to be supplied electricity, adding that government and all the value chain operators were making efforts to deliver power to Nigerians.

“Although there are still people, we have not reached, although there are still disruptions from time to time, and although there are still people who also need meters, we are working to reach them.
“But it is indisputable that we have delivered on incremental power.

“The evidence of our progress is not only captured in the last quarter of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report for Q2 of 2018 which shows a growth of 7.5 per cent in the electricity sector.

“Previous quarterly reports from 2017, have consistently recorded growth, a clear departure from 2014, 2015 and proof of change.“

Fashola said the report of the ministry’s survey and feedback mechanism confirmed that many Nigerians now have public power for longer hours compared to 2015.

“And you now run generators for shorter periods compared to 2015 and you now spend less money on diesel to power your generators.

“As some citizens recently reported, they no longer have to iron all their clothes one week in advance as they previously used to do.

“Because the supply is proving reliable and predictable even if not yet fully stable and uninterrupted.
“This is progress that we must move forward by consolidating on our mandate of change, we cannot go back.

“As our policies on mini grids, Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Eligible Customer and liquidity sustenance and improved governance deepens, your experience with power supply can only get better,“ he said.


http://www.nigerianeye.com/2018/11/buharis-government-has-delivered.html?m=0

Buhari has really done well in terms of power.
Some rogues in PDP stole $16b meant for power for 8 years.

I have 24 hours electricity in my area crew will soon lash on this thread, even though the electricity situation has never been worse throughout the country like we have it today. The Minister of Darkness seems clearly overwhelmed.

Guess after "to provide 24 hours electricity is not rocket science" have now changed "to provide electricity is not by magic"? Continue over-hyped wonder SAN power minister.

For how long will this government continue to ride on propaganda . There is no stable power supply anywhere. And here in Niger state we barely receive up to 6hours of power supply !

Lolzzz.. I think I like how confused dis govt always sounds
Let's take a look at dis

In a telephone interview with TheCable, Joy Ogaji, executive secretary of Association of Power Generating Companies (APGC), said generation companies have an installed capacity of 13,000 megawatts; 7,500MW is available while the actual capacity that gets to Nigerian homes is 3, 968MW.

Ogaji

“Our available capacity is 7,500 megawatts, but due to transmission and distribution problem, the actual generation is 3,968 megawatts as at November 6 (Tuesday). Last week it was about 2000 megawatts. At some point last week, it was below 2000.”

In a note made available to THISDAY, she reiterated why the sector needs dependable data on its operations collected and kept for practical decisions and actions.

IMMINENT COLLAPSE?

Amidst all these, analysts say the sector is facing an impending collapse as it records more losses despite the billions of naira being invested into it.

From January 1 to June 5, 2018, data from the advisory power team in the office of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo showed that the sector lost N201bn revenue, and by August, it increased to N324.3bn.
https://www.thecable.ng/adesina-says-4500mw-lai-claims-7000mw-what-exactly-is-nigerias-power-generation-capacity

GavelSlam:
Only a hypocrite would deny that power supply has improved.

BEDC people I'm not talking about you.

Read dis ur post again very well and look in d mirror, what U see is d hypocrite U talked about

Abeg who help me see the light wey Buhari improve ?

Propaganda and APC be like bread and butter.

May thunder strike your generation there.

We've not had light for close to 2 weeks now in my area...

Thank God those eiyeh boys are back from Libya; I just pray they carry lather to come and cut wire...

RIP to them in advance

alsudan:
I have 24 hours electricity in my area crew will soon lash on this thread, even though the electricity situation has never been worse throughout the country like we have it today. The Minister of Darkness seems clearly overwhelmed.

Wait For Them

This overhyped minister.
Soon as I saw fashola given 3 portfolios was when I knew Buhari didn't have a clue on what it meant to govern.
He just heard the overwhelming propaganda that Fashola did well as Lagos governor,then pronto,he gave him 3 unconnected,serious portfolios.
Well,the power sector,as well as roads and housing has exposed fashola as the average governor he was.

wizzyrich:
Abeg who help me see the light wey Buhari improve ?

Propaganda and APC be like bread and butter.

Are you sure you are living in Nigeria?

Minister of Darkness wee not kee pesin with lies..!

In Abuja here, Aso Drive area beside Aso Villa has been in darkness in working hours for weeks now. ..or months.

We don't have up 2500MW nationwide for distribution.

What a failure..?

No light oga propaganda.

ChrisMafian:
Buhari has really done well in terms of power.
Some rogues in PDP stole $16b meant for power for 8 years.

Do you have Light now in your Place
as for me no Light now in Oshodi

We praised Barth Nnaji..
We praised fashola sometime in 2015..

Light situation is far worse than both periods, how do you even claim better light when distributed MW never increased..

Sure

E no dey move us again

We are use to all these lies

These guys just throw out lie like no mans business.

7,000MW, lol, something that you only hit once, you are now shouting up and down.

It's like on Jan 1st, you generate 7,000MW, then on the remaining 364 days of the year, you generate 3000MW, what would the average be? Abi Fashola doesn't understand simply average? I guess basic math might be far from the realm of a SAN.

Even a kid in primary school can read the graph below and see what our average power supply has been in recent days

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To copy this joke press 1

or

type "fashola" to 419

This is nothing but the truth!
Sai baba

Not again


With all the darkness everywhere

Yes ooo

Fashola is a resounding failure in the power sector.

ChrisMafian:
Buhari has really done well in terms of power.
Some rogues in PDP stole $16b meant for power for 8 years.

Keep deceiving yourself and the gullible ones like you.

He has done well and nothing to show, how many megawatts did they promise to add yearly?

Nonsense talk as usual from zombies.