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Nigerians aren’t making so much noise about N1000/litre petrol due to improved power supply - Power Minister, Adelabu

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says that Nigerians have ‘stopped’ complaining about the hike in petrol price because they no longer need it to run their generators due to constant electricity supply.

The minister stated this while speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, October 15. Last week, the NNPCL increased the pump price of petrol at its retail outlets from N868 per litre to N968 per litre in Lagos and above N1000 in some other regions. The astronomical rise in the price of petrol led to the sharp increase in the cost of transportation, food items and other essential household commodities in Nigeria.

During the conference, Adelabu said;

“People don’t need to buy petrol again as much as they used to do for them to have power. That’s why the noise is even at this level. If they had to be going to the filling stations to buy N1000 per litre of petrol to generate electricity, we would have even had louder noise from the public.

So, what we intend to do is to make sure that all the generators are replaced in line with Lagos State Policy of Replacement of 1 Million Generators in One Year. I saw that. We must replace all the generators.”

In the same breathe, the minister lamented Nigeria’s abysmal performance in the area of power generation, stating that the country added only 2000 megawatts of power to the national grid in the last 40 years dating back to 1984.

But we are over 200 million people, we are still celebrating achieving 5000MW milestone. Why this seems to be an achievement is because it took us almost 40 years to generate additional 2000MW from the 2000MW milestone we achieved in 1984. When we came to the office, we met 4000MW.

Now, we have taken it to average of 5000MW, with a peak of 5,527MW on the third of September. But we are not deterred. If the last best time was 50 years ago, I believe the next best time is today, and this must wake us up. So, it’s an issue I don’t like to remember”, he said

Afonja44:
He has already proven it is Bobrisky's unmistakeable voice. Bobrisky is the one denying it.

So Bobrisky has to disprove VDM's audio as fake (which he can't). This is where the can of worms will open.


Like Fufeyin, Falana made a grave mistake by suing VDM for N500m.

Afonja44:
The onus is still on Bobrisky to disprove VDM's voicenotes with his voice on it which he stil hasn't done.

Afonja44:
The text was obviously sent to Bobrisky to paste.

An illiterate of his caliber that can't string 2 words together couldn't possibly write that.


Falana is behind it.

TechCapon:
in Lagos?

TechCapon:
with 450k?

Zaheertyler:
Nah this is sad..no matter what you don’t wish people bad especially in a sensitive matter like this

Kobojunkie:
I believe it has to do with the percentage of the total population and not the literal count of people in poverty. The percentage of Nigerians across the world is over 70%. The number has been rising over the years and the government has not been doing much to curb the rise except sharing bad rice here and there.

RZArecta:
it's better to just keep quiet there

nedu666:
India 1.4 billion people
Nigeria 220 million people
Yet Nigeria has more poor people than India
God why

yak:
Me sef need something cheap and I have come across cars within that year for my small budget but I'm always afraid of the age