FG promises 18-hour daily power supply by 2014

The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that they will start enjoying power supply for 18 hours as from 2014.

The Minister of State for Power, Alhaja Zainab Kuchi, stated this while speaking with reporters at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Wednesday.

She also assured that power generation in the country would peak at 10,000 megawatts by the end of December 2014.

The minister said the increase in power generation would translate into between 17 and 18 hours of power supply in the country.

The minister in company with the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, were at the party’s secretariat to brief its leadership on the activities of their ministry in the last one year.

Nebo directed the minister of state to answer most of the questions by journalists after their interaction with the members of the National Working Committee of the party.

She said, “In 2014, we envisage 10,000 mega watts. God willing, with our short term, long term and immediate strategies that we have in the ministry working assiduously with all the other stakeholders in the power sector, we envisaged we would make it.

“With all the other NIPP work going on and the Niger Delta Power Company coming up and to be commissioned by December 2013, we look forward to 10,000 megawatts come December 2014.

“And this is what we are working towards; if we succeed making it more than that we are very happy people. But we are focused on actually delivering 10,000 megawatts by 2014.

“And this, by our calculations and data we have on ground, will give at least between 17 and 18 hours of power supply to Nigerians. The 24 hours power supply will happen and we are working steadily towards that.”

Source: Punch