The Federal Government has said that the nationwide power outage witnessed on Thursday is due to a fire incident and an explosion on the Kainji/Jebba 330kV line 2. Power consumers, however, kicked against the un-ending excuses of the government as regards power generation and supply in Nigeria, despite privatising the generation and distribution arms of
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Electricity workers under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have disclosed that privatisation of the power sector in the country has failed. The workers made this disclosure on Monday. The workers who spoke at a press conference in Ibadan on Monday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari led administration to reverse the
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An emergency intervention scheme conceived 15 years ago to tackle the nation’s electricity woes has yet to deliver the goods as the power plants built with billions of taxpayers’ money continue to underperform, ’FEMI ASU writes. Irked by the poor electricity generation in the country, the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo began the process of
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