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We have recovered the grid, says Minister, but Nigeria is still in darkness

March 17, 2022

From Elohor Igbru, Abuja

The Minister of Power, Engineer Abubakar on Wednesday said that the recent collapse of the national grid had been sorted out.

However, most of the states affected by the collapse are still in darkness. In the Federal Capital, businesses are still running on generators while homes remain without power.

The situation was aggravated in Abuja as fuel scarcity persists with few stations selling refusing to dispense into jerry cans for generators.

Meanwhile, Aliyu, gave assurance on Wednesday while fielding questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“We have recovered the grid now. The grid is back and we are trying to get more megawatts to push on the grid. We have set up small committees all geared towards getting more megawatts to put on the grid. Basically, the problem around gas. You need to have gas contract between generating companies and gas suppliers- some are form contracts, some are not. We are looking into this and have proffered some solutions in some few days to mature,”he said.

The Minister also reacted to questions on the possible factors responsible for the current deplorable electricity supply situation across the country.

He listed the challenges that contributed to the current power crisis to include the collapse of the grid, scheduled maintenance of facilities, vandalization of pipelines, the disputes around availability of gas as well as payment for gas contracts between gas companies and power generating companies.

“The more reason we are facing the situation now is as a result of the shortage of gas and some of the generators have to go to maintenance.

“It is a scheduled maintenance and it is supposed to be scheduled outage, but we had not envisaged that we will have issues around vandalization of pipelines, which the NNPC has addressed as you can see evidently everywhere, aviation fuel, and petrol in the filling stations. It is a combination of many factors that compounded the problem we are having on the grid.

Aliyu also made clarification on the issue of the quantity of generated electricity in the country, saying “we have capacity of 8,000 megawatts – the one on the grid, imbedded and captive. If you combine all of them, you will get these problems that we are encountering. We are on top of the challenge and very soon, we will come out of it”.

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