Considered the river of West Africa, River Niger is about 4,180km, with drainage basin of 2,117,700 km2. How Power Privatisation Introduces New TwistTHE privatisation of the power sector in Nigeria in 2013 had brought in its trail a new development. Recall that supply of electricity under the government controlled system structured power supply as social amenity, rather than commercial. Shehu said: “The actual cost of electricity generated between 2018 and 2019 by all the electricity generation companies in Nigeria was about N1.2tr ($4b). In his view, one of the major issues plaguing the Nigeria electricity sector has to do with receivable collection, due to the largely social interpretation of power supply locally.

Source: The Guardian August 02, 2020 04:30 UTC