“Power Supply to be stable by October" - Minister...Time to agree with "Omosexy"?

By October this year, power supply would be stable in Nigeria. That is a promise that came yesterday from the Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo, who briefed journalists after a closed-door power meeting, chaired by Vice President Namadi Sambo at the State House, Abuja.

 This is however not the first time such a promise would be made but it is the first in the new power dispensation under the current privatization arrangement.

According to Nebo, power supply had improved in the country in the past one week due to improved gas supply. Nigerians in certain quarters have also rejoiced over the said improvement, one of them is Nollywood actress, Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde.

Omosexy, had on twitter handle, expressed her view: “Hello Osexynationals! Anyone noticed the really improved Power supply?”

In Prof. Nebo’s words: “The cheering news from all of these is that if you have noticed throughout the country in the past one week people have been getting much better power supply. The gas is now beginning to come back and it’s something that gives all of us a lot of joy.

“And we know that it will continue to grow that way even until December because now some of the facilities, maintenance, repair works on the gas equipment and so on. The gas producers have come to a place where almost all of these is being taken care of, and then the new gas we are expecting we have then trickling in right now.

“So that part of the shortfalls we’ve had in production up to this time, we hope that by the beginning of October, we will see a much better stabilisation of the entire power delivery system in the country.
“First, I would say we rejoice that for the first time in a long time we have been averaging over 4,500 MW when we include nearly 300 mw of spilling reserve which is always put there to make sure that the reliability and stability of the grid is ensured at all time.

“So, we are really moving forward; it may not be as rapidly as Nigerians expect but it is important to let everybody know that indeed we are advancing, we are making progress and we will continue to make progress’’ he said.