The collapse, which occurred early in the afternoon on Wednesday, was confirmed by two of the electricity distribution companies in the country.
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Alhaji Rabiu Bako, the State’s Commissioner of Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, disclosed this on Wednesday shortly after defending the ministry’s 2017 proposed budget at the state assembly
He said that the country began to experience low electricity supply due to pipeline vandalism and the bombings in the Niger Delta region
The Transmission Company of Nigeria puts the total output of all the generation companies at 3,321.50 megawatts, which had been transferred to the 11 distribution companies across the country
To ensure huge success of this reform of the power sector and its privatization, a Presidential Action Committee on Power, chaired by the President, was put in place, with the Vice President and government Ministers as members, and key roles assigned. Also put in place was a Presidential Task Force on Power, chaired by the Special Adviser to the President on Power, with a mandate to ensure a symbiotic relationship between the relevant MDAs and the private Investors, with a specific directive that they take good time to ensure that all risks ahead of the full sector reforms and privatization were identified and brought up for mitigation or removal
It said: “There are three major types of losses encountered in the utility billing system business: Technical, Commercial and Collection losses
Media reports dhow that apart from barricading the entrances to the Head Office, Business Units and Undertakings, the Union members have also prevented the staff from gaining access into these premises thereby rendering them incapable of providing any quality or consistent services to its customers – who across several sectors are always at the receiving end of these illegal activities that are flagrantly perpetrated by a few, self-serving Unionists
According to data from the Nigerian Systems Operations Department of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, the 1,580.6MW were distributed to the 11 electricity Distribution Companies as follows: Ikeja: 237.09MW; Abuja: 181.77MW; Eko: 173.87MW; Benin: 142.25MW; Enugu: 142.25 MW; Ibadan: 205.48MW; Jos: 86.93MW; Kano: 126.45MW; Kaduna: 126.4MMW; Port Harcourt: 102.74 MW; and Yola: 55.32 MW.
A statement issued on the ceremony by Dr. Usman Abba-Arabi, the Head of Public Affairs Department of the NERC, was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja
The managers said they only got an average of six hours power supply daily from the national grid and ran their generators to provide electricity for the remaining hours
He disclosed this on Friday in Auchi in an inaugural lecture on: “Virtual Darkness in a Nation where Energy Resources Abound: The Lamentation of a Concerned In dweller
Former President Obasanjo, in a recent reaction, blamed Ige for ‘his’ failed promises and exonerated himself from the decision to solve the problem in the power industry in six months. Obasanjo eventually also found the power deficit difficult to overcome in his eight years in office
The official, who preferred anonymity, however said that the contribution of the new plants would also depend on the availability of gas