ABUJA-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said his administration remains committed to the attainment of uninterrupted power supply in Nigeria before the end of its tenure in 2015.

Jonathan gave this assurance during an audience with members of the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company led by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

The President maintained that the Federal Government was mindful of the importance of steady power supply for national development, and would therefore do everything possible to ensure stable power supply.

President Jonathan said: “We all know the importance of power. We look forward to a time when Nigerians can enjoy uninterrupted power supply from the beginning to the end of a year and we are working hard to ensure that, that objective is attained within the life-span of this administration”.

Jonathan urged members of the board and management of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company to ensure that the company, which was established to oversee the implementation of National Integrated Power Projects, NIPP, funded by the three-tiers of government, contributes very effectively to meeting the country’s power supply needs.

Vice President Sambo who chairs the board of the company assured President Jonathan that it will deliver all gas-fired NIPP power generating stations, as well as associated transmission projects on schedule to ensure that the Jonathan administration’s promise of steady power supply is fulfilled.
Sambo said: “We will work relentlessly to fulfill our mandate on time,” while thanking President Jonathan for receiving members of the board. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Governors of Benue, Delta and Ekiti states, as well as the Ministers of Power, Petroleum, and Justice were present at the meeting.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/ill-end-power-failure-in-four-years-jonathan/

Rolllllllssssssssss eyesssssssss. mtchewwwwww!!!! to the 50th level.

joker

Hmmmmmm, ,May God help him.

akuko, meaning story story,

Mr talkative,your time is ticking already !

The Obama of Nigeria.
All talk, no action!
What do they both have in common?
They ll both end up being one time presidents.

indeed !!!!! what we want is more action and less talk. So far this is your report card as at July 2011. bad news galore.



After one year and several billions of dollars in spending, the Federal government appears to be failing to meet critical targets it set for itself in the much publicised power roadmap which was inaugurated with fanfare.

The power roadmap had been roundly acclaimed as the best policy direction by the government and many had hailed it as capable of taking the country out of perennial darkness. But data now suggests that once again, the Federal government is failing to walk the talk in this crucial area.

One significant agenda which the government committed to attaining in the first quarter of this year was the privatisation of the eleven distribution and six generation assets. The government failed to achieve this and the privatisation of these key assets has now been delayed by one whole year.

It was hoped that getting the state-held assets into private ownership and management would spur massive private investment and job creation capable of producing the same flourish that the nation’s telecommunication sector has witnessed since the entry of private enterprises more than ten years ago.

While the Power sector reform roadmap targeted total power generation of 7,033 megawatts of electricity by April 2011, actual power generation as of Tuesday, July 12 was a dismal 3,200 megawatts.

This is still a far cry from the 5,755 megawatts of power government technocrats said would be the realistic delivery target by the end of the first quarter of this year.

Data accessed by BusinessDay show that instead of a steady increase in power generation levels, there has been a worsening of the situation, largely by the failure to supply the required gas, low water level at the hydro power plants and the delay in the rehabilitation of key but ageing thermal power plants in different locations in the country.

According to the roadmap, the transmission and distribution networks should have been reinforced by about 30 percent as of April this year. This target has also not been achieved, and curiously, for a government which puts power at the top of its agenda, questions are now being raised as to why there has been a huge gap in the funds disbursed by the government and the amount needed to get the job done.

Under the power roadmap, the government set for itself a short term twin objectives of rehabilitating1,000 megawatts (mw) of generating capacity at existing Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) power stations, and adding 1,266 mw of generating capacity from the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs). Data now shows that the government again failed to achieve this objective while actual power generation during the period fluctuated between 3,000 and 3,200 mw.

Investigation buy BusinessDay revealed that power plants such as those in Jebba, Kainji, Egbin and Shiroro from which the 1,000 mw was supposed to have been secured, are still undergoing rehabilitation, leading to low output.

The thermal stations being built under the NIPP scheme are not fairing better, and it now appears that the wait for gas at these stations may never come to an end as the government’s national gas master plan remains only a plan and incapable of delivering on the lofty targets set for it by the government.

At the Independent Power plant in Olorunsogo in Ogun State, four units of the plant are ready while two units are ready at the Alaoji power plant, but the prospects of them generating power remain gloomy because of poor gas supply to the locations.

At the Sapele independent power plant in Delta State where two units have been completed, generation is being held down by some technical issues relating to opening a gas supply line from the nearby Oben gas transmission station.

In the transmission sector, although some successes have been recorded, the transmission lines remain unattended, leading to a situation, as in the case of Afam, where the government still has not been able to put the power generated there into the national grid because of lack of transmission lines to evacuate the power.

In its effort to reinforce and improve the capacity and reliability of the transmission grid, government commissioned eight new 60 MVA, 132/33kV power transformers at various transmission stations nationwide as of May this year at a cost of N1.5 billion.

Similarly, investigation showed that there has been steady enhancement in the capacity and reliability of the 330kV and 132kV sub-stations as well as its 330kV and 132kV route length lines.

The government also set for itself the target of installing a distribution target of 9,057 megawatts from 5,758 megawatts as of April this year, but the target has yet to be achieved even in July.


http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/24599-fg-fails-to-deliver-on-its-power-target

na today we start dey hear dis tori? pls until we see the power.for naow, he can talk all he wants. sabi na so dem dey talk since.

when will he start the work: no date, till one year finishes, second finishes , , and the fourth finishes. God of Nigeria, please help us.

Na today we don de hear am? Abegi, tel us wetin Father Abraham been no hear,

Too little too late.

Ithink GEJ wants to make headline, its quite a while we heard him speak.
Mtcheeeeeew! Beer parlour talk.

Did Obasanjo , a past PDP President, not make the same promise in 1999? Did yar Adua also not swear he would declare a "state of emergency" on the power sector? Anyway, with the last election, Nigerians have shown they remain gullible souls. They will go back to lie on their beds of empty promises while their 'suffering and smiling' continues unabated .

lol na today isnt that what every president we've had promised

not surprising at all

na today? e don tey, clueless presido.

[color=#006600][/color] nigerians are tired of waiting! We nid action!

Errr,I think thats the general reason Nigerians voted over-whelmingly for you,so let's start seeing some concrete things on ground,enough of all this story

Abegi leave the president alone. When the yorubas n the hausas were in power what difference did they make 2 salvage the perennial problem of power supply in the country? So now that a South South person is presiding over the affairs of the land, u guyz want him 2 do magic. Abegi!

GEJ is a promise specialist, for more than a year now, he has been promising this and that, yet no achievement.

olawalebab:

GEJ is a promise specialist, for more than a year now, he has been promising this and that, yet no achievement.

OBJ could not neither.

Naija People!!! so much distrust. Please let us continue to pray for our leaders especially GEJ, that he will achieve uninterrupted power supply for us all by 2015. Leadership is not easy oooooooo, especially with these PDP crimos.

yorke:

Abegi leave the president alone. When the yorubas n the hausas were in power what difference did they make 2 salvage the perennial problem of power supply in the country? So now that a South South person is presiding over the affairs of the land, u guyz want him 2 do magic. Abegi!

Can some of you ever take off your ethnic goggles ? Even for 1 second? This is a National problem that has all to do with the President of the day and not past Yoruba or Hausa leaders. If GEJ is messing up we should let him be because others before him (Yorubas and Hausas) have done similar?

This man's mouth is sweet

yorke:

OBJ could not neither.

the thread is not about him now, letsleave him. but with way GEJ is moving, he will make Obj look like a demi god

Gbawe:

Can some of you ever take off your ethnic goggles ? Even for 1 second? This is a National problem that has all to do with the President of the day and not past Yoruba or Hausa leaders. If GEJ is messing up we should let him be because others before him (Yorubas and Hausas) have done similar?

He promised constant power supply, yes. He's still the president. Why not give him a benefit of doubt b4 his tenure runs out. Why castigating him as if others b4 made any different b4 they left while promised heaven on earth. The problem of power is a serious problem 2 tackle just like dat if not past leaders would have kept to their promises.

Idiots all of dem mouth and no actions hisssssssss

olawalebab:

the thread is not about him now, letsleave him. but with way GEJ is moving, he will make Obj look like a demi god

Why leave him out? Wasn't him behind the primary cause of the whole problem? D u know the amount of dollars the minister of power embezzle without trace under him? They both shared the money.

Joker

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Amin oooooooooooo!

yorke:

Why leave him out? Wasn't him behind the primary cause of the whole problem? D u know the amount of dollars the minister of power embezzle without trace under him? They both shared the money.

i dont know that is from the angle you are looking at it. you know one thing, i don't take that man seriously any more since the day his son came out to accuse him of sleeping with his son and he did not come out to refute that claim.