Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has revealed the Nigerian states that now have a constant power supply.
“Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five, some have 10 and there are still outages,” Fashola listed in a recent channels television interview.
He further said “The government has decided that as 40 per cent holder of everything in the distribution of power, we have our programme to invest N72 billion which will involve installing transformers and all of that.
“We created a metre access provider regulation. What it does is to create a new plan of investment programme.
“We manufacture, produce, supply and install metres and fill the gap the distribution companies cannot raise capital to fill.
“They cannot do so alone, they must do so under a procurement policy with the distribution company”.