There is now low patronage for generating sets in Ado-Ekiti  and other major towns in Ekiti State due to increase in the use of Inverter and Solar energy.

says Nigeria needs N6trn for its electricity needs

By Musa Adamu

Just as the electricity workers in the country are threatening another round of nationwide strike due to alleged government’s failure to keep to agreements, the Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE), Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, yesterday in Abuja, said government had paid over 90 per cent of their monetisation benefits.

The National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday gave approval to Local Governments to embark on Independent Power Projects(IPPs). Gov. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger made this known to State House correspondents shortly after the monthly NEC meeting in Abuja.

By Abdulrahman Abdulraheem

Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has said that the Federal Government has so far injected N14.9 billion in the power sector while arrangements are in top gear to commence the building of dams to sustain electricity generation.