God Almighty knows I had light for 5days straight without blinking severally during GEJ tenure here in Agbara. Even while I was in Ibadan back then in 2011....!it was 20hrs/day

seunfly:
If we credit it to raining season, my question is, does is it mean rain don't fall under Jonathan?

Bubu body odour is no longer smelling..... No light for 7 days at location

Just FYI.

NNPC contributes to power generation in the country. As some of us have noticed, there has been a considerable increase in power supply which has translated to a considerably stable electricity in some parts of the country. This is because of the following major reasons:

1. There has been a significant increase in the domestic gas supply to power plants and industries which is occasioned by the expansion of some major gas plants, e.g Oben gas plant which has been expanded from 90mmscfd to 270mmscfd of natural gas and Oturogo gas plant expanded to full capacity.

2. The construction and completion of new gas plants to further boost supplies.

3. The revamping and putting back on-stream gas stations that were, hitherto, shutdown for many years.

4. The aggressive sourcing of gas supply by the Management Nigerian Gas Company, a subsidiary of NNPC.

5. Completion of repairs of vandalized Escravos-Lagos Pipelines, EPLs which resulted in the boosting of Escravos gas plant to over 400mmscd of natural gas.

The above are the reasons why we are experiencing some amount of stable electricity in some parts of the country particularly in the last few months. As it stands today, we have more than enough gas to power our gas plants, however, our problem is how to evacuate the generated power. This problem is due to power transmission challenges. As at Aug., 2015, Nigeria experienced a record high peak generation of 4800MW. There is enough gas to support a steady generation of over 5500MW today but we average 45000MW. Power evacuation challenge is a major challenge. This means that, although gas is more than available, the generated power is stranded because the distribution companies, DISCOs are refusing allocated loads for onward distribution. If not, we would have seen a much better improvement.

Nigeria's power problem is not about lack of generation and transmission but lack of distribution. In other words, our problem is not how to generate/transmit the power but how to distribute it to the end users (factories, you and me). FG electricity laws and policies are also another problem. States like Rivers, Bayelsa, Lagos, etc have the capacity to serve the power needs of her people by generating her own power but cannot transmit directly because of the limitations posed by these laws. For instance, if a state generates her own power, by law, she doesn't have the legal rights to transmit it. She has to first feed it to National Grid and then gets allocation from there which is usually nothing to write home about. It's like the oil producing states who generates the revenues from oil production then pays same to the FG at the center and then go back every month to get allocations.

These policies have to be changed for us to see better days ahead.