The enduring power outage
experienced across the country is
expected to last till July when the
nation’s dams will have accumulated
more water needed for more power
generation.
This was revealed by the Minister of
Power, Professor Barth Nnaji at a press
briefing on Monday in Abuja, where he
blamed the limited amount of rainfall
last year and the shortage of gas
supplied to the gas plants, as the major
cause for the outages, which will still last
for the next three months.
According to the Minister “a number of
the gas power plants have gas
constraints, gas limitation; some are not
getting at all”, adding that “we don’t
want to blame gas as the only reason
why we have power problem in the last
three weeks because of limited rain last
year. The black flood did not really
arrive; as a result we have severe
shortage with water.”
Professor Nnaji also stated that “we
have had to really be careful about how
water is managed within the hydro-
plants such as Kanji Jebba and Shiroro
dams.”
He also explained that the power plant
at Shiroro dam, is presently working for
three hours due to the low level of water
from the Shiroro dam. “Power is shut
down for most of the day except from 7
to like 10’O clock.” “That is when power
is available” he quipped.
This he affirmed “will continue to be so
until July when we will have the black
flood” he stated.
Professor Nnaji also revealed that the
plants are undergoing reconstruction to
ensure maximum capacity and he also
announced structural adjustments in the
management of major power
distribution and transmission
companies in the country.
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/04/02/on-going-severe-power-outage-to-last-till-july/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

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God have mercy. Blaming rain for your incompetent. It is only in Nigeria that this can happen.

globalaid: God have mercy. Blaming rain for your incompetent. It is only in Nigeria that this can happen.

Should he go and fetch water that's to feed the dams? Guy relax na.

Not encouraging at all.

they always have something to blame; gas supply, rainfall! nawa o. If they use solar they will blame cloudiness, if they use wind, im sure the weather will be too calm, if nuclear, haaa, the rods are either too hot or too cold and they are just too afraid of nuclear explosion!

I wonder what the people in the UAE will complain about then.
Since the wonderful city of Dubai was built out of a desert.
Rain nor dey fall for dia o. . .but dem get water light all YEAR ROUND!
May God continue to manage the 'BlACK RACE'!

Wow I can't believe this clown is getting paid to spew this crap to a country of 150million youths. Smh

Nigerian youths are indeed cowards. O ma se o

cogitoErgo: they always have something to blame; gas supply, rainfall! nawa o. If they use solar they will blame cloudiness, if they use wind, im sure the weather will be too calm, if nuclear, haaa, the rods are either too hot or too cold and they are just too afraid of nuclear explosion!

It beats my imagination too