Prior to the privatisation of the successor companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, the firm employed no new engineer for over 16 years, the Federal Government has said.The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, said this in Abuja at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Youth Summit organised by the Youth Initiative for Leadership and Rural Development.According to him, this flaw and a few other issues led to the abysmal performance of the power sector and contributed to the abandonment of electrical equipment at the ports for several years.Nebo, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kande Daniel, on Tuesday, stated that the present reforms in the sector had given rise to the employment of about 1,000 young engineers.He said the reforms were being religiously implemented with a view to achieving sufficiency in power supply, which would usher in industrialisation and greater economic growth than had already been achieved.On the Federal Government’s recent move of taking delivery of 248 containers of vital electricity equipment abandoned at the Lagos ports for several years, the minister said the abandonment was a demonstration of the need to privatise the sector, as no private entrepreneur would have tolerated such a waste.Nebo said the recovery of the equipment was in line with the present administration’s policy of minimising waste and maximising benefits by synergising with the Nigeria Customs Service to ensure the release of the containers.The minister and the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr. Godknows Igali, took delivery of the power transmission equipment and ensure their evacuation for immediate delivery to project sites last Thursday.Nebo said the Federal Government had put structures in place to make Nigerian youths industry-ready to man the evolving private sector-driven power sector.According to him, this will provide self and paid employment for the youth and meet the local content requirement for the power sector so as to avoid foreign domination.He explained that specific schemes and initiatives targeted at empowering young Nigerians included the Power Sector Entrepreneurship Programme, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and the capacity development offered through the National Power Training Institute, whose graduates were already being engaged to provide the needed technical expertise in the privatised power sector.

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Not officially sah, know an engineer employed as maintenance guy...

And yet we wonder why our light situation is stagnant

So whom will take the blame? We only get fed with such news only when the deed has been done and there is no culprit. I hope things really change in the power section. Am optimistic a wave of development is blowing because power just got restored after a year in my area.

I don't believe it What of those "engineers" I usually see and meet in their offices

Time will tell. . .

They prefer bringing in graduates in the name of contract and pay them 10k monthly.

Dat is 9ja 4 u, who is now 2 blame? Gej or pej

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Omooba77: Not officially sah, no an engineer employed as maintenance guy...

what is this one saying ?

engineer or no engineer, the electricity situation will still worsen

so they only employ accountants and those that disconnect
diaries god oo

Lol

Whose primary fault is it that no personell were employed?

If dem no employ enqineers na who dem con employ??
Well, dat 1 na story for d qods..

So na surqeons dey do surqical operations on our equipments all dis while, no wonder it has been on and off..quess dey jst 'lost it'

I beginning to like this gej administration. Always discovering the rot in the system. Is a question of time nigeria will be fix, all we need to do is to contribute our own ideology. Constructive criticism is all we need. Nigeria will b great. I love 9ja

so who should we blame for that?

no wonder ..
no engineer in power sector... were are all our ele/elec engineering graduate..
how would power sector improve...
smh for nigeria..all they did is to collect contract staff, I.t students to reduce expensive

Dt is tru o. There is no enginer. Only service manager is enginer and marketg marnager deptuy manager admin oficer and cheif acount and does dt r operating 132kv dt go to sch. Others are ssce older....so dey pay dem 5k to15k. So no bsc older wil aply 4 dt kind of job. Dt y phcn workers are army robbers

Elantracey: so who should we blame for that?

hmmm.. boko haram

They are only interested in touts who climb ladder and those who give crazy billing. If you can do any of the above,u are employed. If u like,get Phd in engineering,that one concern you alone.
But Naija shaaaaaa! I thought the privatization of a thing would have cleaned out those unwanted baggage in the power sector payroll. But i guess it wld never be so. The only thing that happened was a transfer of ownership. No wonder the problem remains like a stagnant water. O ma gaa oooo.

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Ok

No wonder the level of power has dratically reduce in many areas of the country, which gave room for prolonged power outage(but I get light sha) I wan follow some people vex

Fp or no comment.

Brother Engineer, weldone. The shocking revelation is that within those years we have only have very few Engineers as Minister of that sector.
Hopefully with Engineer Nebo as the current minister, the wrong deeds by the past ministers will be corrected by employing the right people for the job.

Long live Nigerians!

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No wonder, thank God for vindicating we engineers.

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the agents of satan will always cause security problems for us but we will come out victorious

This country is a joke. Containers that will boost our power sector seized for so many years by our own custom service, Boko haram bombing since when i can't remember, government has not sacked anybody, even foreign intervention, yet no sign of them stopping. Phcn had no engineer for 16 years. Ebola started in some countries around us, no measure was taken to stop people from that country from entering Nigeria until one victim entered. very funny country

Unbelievable!