The Federal Government has said that it plans to bring sustainable electricity supply to about 75 percent of Nigeria’s total population within the next 13 years when the country’s power generation would have averaged 40,000 megawatts (MW).

Minister of State for Power, Mr. Darius Ishaku disclosed at a regional dialogue on the use of renewable energy technologies to improve agricultural activities organised by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in conjunction with the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties in Abuja that the ambitious plan will see a swift increase in the percentage of people with electricity in the country.

Recall that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had in a survey it conducted in 2011 on the percentage of Nigeria’s population with access to electricity stated that about 35 percent of Nigerians are properly metered and captured as legitimate consumers of electricity supplied from the national grid. - http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-targets-75-electrification-across-nigeria/128452/