Fashola Raises Hope for Better Electricity Supply
Nigeria stands to get better power supply soon. This was revealed by the minister Babatunde Raji Fashola Minister of Power, Works and Housing during an interview on the Sunday Morning Show of Arise Television. He said;
“In six days’ time, we will restore generation to 4,000MW,” promising: “By the time you have the hydro station back during the raining season, you will get more.”
Nigerians had been experiencing frequent power outages, which worsened in the last few weeks even as the weather became hotter, provoking bitter complaints from citizens.
But the minister, who also clarified that the N701 billion power intervention fund recently announced by the federal government would be spread over the next three years to give comfort to the operators, explained that the outages were due to low water levels at the nation’s hydro power stations.
