AT the launch of the Roadmap to Power Sector Reform in Lagos on August 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan had recalled that one of his friends once jokingly asked him: “Can Nigeria celebrate one day of continuous (uninterrupted) power supply?” And he answered thus: “By God’s grace, by December 2012, Nigeria will not just celebrate one day, but one week, one month, and even better.”
It is almost three years since the President unveiled the power sector reform blueprint and nine years after the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) was conceived in 2004 as a Federal Government’s interventionist initiative to significantly raise the country’s electricity generation, transmission and distribution capacity to meet its electricity demand.
No doubt, this presidential vision has not been wholly realised, however the current federal administration has made some real progress towards meeting this target.
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