Nigeria is going to generate 6,000 megawatts of electricity before the end of this year, the Federal Government declared on Friday. Nigeria’s power generation currently hovers around 4,000 and 4,500MW for a population of about 200 million people. On Friday, for instance, the country’s power generation was 4,553.82MW as of 6 am that day. Adelabu vowed that power generation in Nigeria would hit 6,000MW before the end of this year, going by the improvements in the sector in the last year. He said the government was in the process of finalising contracts for Phase 1 of the Presidential Power Initiative.
Source: Punch May 25, 2024 13:38 UTC