The Nigeria Power Sector's transition in recent time into a private sector driven sector is one that is laden with so much challenges and arguments. It cuts across the 3 major component segments of the sector (generation, transmission and distribution). The regulatory aspect which continues to be the sole responsibility of government is also not left out of the upheavals of the sector. In the midst of all the conversations, controversies and blame tradings going on in the sector, customers, that are a major stakeholder in the sector, often forget that they have their rights and as well, obligations, as regards their dealings in the sector. Here is a quick reminder of this in the piece referenced below(click link below to read more):
http://energydiscuss.com/nigeria-electricity-consumers-rights-obligations/

The problem with the power sector lies with generation; our generation plants cannot supply what we are currently managing as a nation , and the only solution to this is going nuclear .

There is no one solution to the multi-headed challenges plaguing the power sector. It is a fact that the nation needs to generate more but that is not even the starting point. You obviously need to evacuate whatever you generate through transmission then to distribution. At the moment, Nigeria distribution infrastructure lags behind that of generation and transmission, meaning that, what we are even generating at the moment, we can't transmit all of it, that's why you always hear about the grid collapsing as it can not even sustain and transmit all that is generated. The distribution network that gets the transmitted power to the end users (customers) is even worse off, its own capacity is less than that of the transmission sub-unit. That is why you find the DisCos rejecting generated electricity, because they do not have the infrastructure that could even sustain our current generation and transmission levels. The reported current generation capacity hovers slightly below 8,000 Megawatts, transmission at 7,000 Megawatts plus and distribution is still at 4,000 plus megawatts (below 5,000MW) capacity. Fair enough, the distribution end is much more challenging and demanding than the generation, while transmission demand is also very huge. We need to do more for the weakest link for now to stop it from wasting what we even generating at the moment, else if we do otherwise, it will still be a wasted effort.
As for nuclear, it can only form part of our mix, not even the major for now. Using economy of scale, Nigeria has the better options of gas plants with our enormous gas reserves, fueling the plants should not be an issue, we only need to work on how to pipe the gas to the plants and there are also rivers to dam for power generation, a good example is the Mambilla that we have actually not really worked on for about 4 decades, it has the capacity of over 3,000 Megawatts, more than all our currently existing plants. Globally, you will observe that more nations have shifted towards gas fired plants in the last 2 decades in trying to move away from the "dirty" coal than nuclear plants. The issue of waste of nuclear plant is still a long term thing to contend with and don't also forget that apart from being very complex to maintain, nuclear plants accidents make it a high risk, we are still very careless as a nation, you remember recently and down memory lane; Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011), Chernobyl disaster (1986), Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident (1961). You don't have such complexity with gas fired plants, and the other options except nuclear.

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