THE Federal Government, at the weekend, said electricity generation capacity would have hit 10,000 megawatts by first quarter of next year and by the time, all ongoing National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) must have been completed.
This is even as it noted that the country was reaching a time of stability in power sector, while promising that the nation would experience a robust sector in coming years.
The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Power, Dr Godknows Igali, who spoke to select journalists in Abuja, at Nigerian Pilot/Newsworld Magazine Leadership Forum, also warned that the government would no longer accept the practice of vandalising power infrastructure across the country.
He disclosed that Kaduna power plant would commence power generation by the end of the year, noting that additional power plants were expected to come on stream soon.
“In the years ahead, we are going to have electricity sector that is robust. If you look at the past few weeks, many Nigerians agreed that power situation improved considerably.
“We had a problem about two and a half weeks ago when one of our main trunks had a shut-down for major maintenance work. We came out and said we had to shut down operations and for those weeks, we lost 1,000 megawatts of power
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