Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji had an exhaustive tweet-meet yesterday as we initially wrote on. The tweet-meet which was an engagement between the Minister of Power and his followers on twitter dwelled on the various actions his ministry is taking to stabilise power supply in the country.

The Minister tweeted that by December 31st, 2011 the entity known as the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) will cease to exist and its corporate headquarters shut down. On questions raised by other tweeters on the compensation for PHCN workers and their status post PHCN the Minister stated that the FG has paid N57 Billion to PHCN workers, agreed on 50% salary increase for them and also agreed to convert 11,000 casual staff to full time workers.

In response to a question asked by @DipoDaramola the Minister revealed that Nigeria provides power to Niger, Chad and Benin republic. The Minister also tweeted that, apart from Zambia Nigeria has the lowest electricity tariff in sub-Saharan Africa,

More on Prof Bart's Twitter Discussions; http://nairabrains.com/2011/12/prof-barts-tweet-meet-phcn-to-be-closed-down-power-stations-for-enugu-gombe-and-benue/

Like Obasanjo will say,
I dey laugh o
PHCN has not been very considerate to Nigerians so it is difficult to support them
In fact, it is good ridance to bad rubbish

If we hear right they are being duly compensated so they should take a bow after serving to the best of their abbreviated knowledge