Fashola Urges Stakeholders’ Support to Improve Power Sector

 

 

 

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has appealed to stakeholders in the power sector to partner the Federal Government in its effort to overhaul the sector, Vanguard reports.

Fashola made the appeal while unveiling an overhauled generating unit of the Jebba Hydro Power Station on Monday. The rehabilitation work was the first carried out in the power station since it was inaugurated in 1985. Fashola noted

Power: Nigeria Moves Against Estimated Billing

 

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing

With an estimated three million customers who use electricity in Nigeria but are not metred, the Nigerian government is accelerating ways to ensure that issues of estimated bills by electricity distribution companies ends as soon as possible.

Part of the strategies involves encouraging local manufacturers of pr-paid metres to produce standard metres to get every customer to only pay for what he consumes.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who has met with local manufacturing companies, said he was determined to refocus attention on the need to rapidly roll-out meters in order to ensure that distribution companies charge electricity consumers only for energy they consumed.

Electricity Subsidy For Rural Consumers Uncertain

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has said that the possibility of providing some level of financial subsidy for electricity consumers in Nigeria’s rural communities remains uncertain due to limited finances.

Fashola however, added that the government was already considering recommendations on what would work for it going forward in this regard.