Power supply from the national grid to households and businesses in the country is said to have dropped to 2,880MW.
The decrease in power generation has been attributed to the sabotage of the Trans Forcados Pipeline on Sunday, 4 January 2015.The Special Adviser on gas to the Minister of Power, Mr. frank Edozie said, ''The reason power supply is down is that there is not enough gas and the reason there is not enough gas is because of sabotage of gas pipelines.''
''The pipelines have been regularly vandalised in the last few months. The Trans Forcados Pipeline has been down. The last incident occurred on Sunday. The previous one was last Wednesday. The pipeline was fixed and as it was about to be commission, it was vandalised again at various points.''
Taking necessary steps towards providing electricity is not been visible. If this is the situation prevailing in the country, the only option available to light up Nigeria is opting for green energy solutions.
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