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The Eko Electricity Distribution Company of Power Holding Company Nigeria (PHCN) on Tuesday, announced it had spent over N2 billion on reinforcing and maintaining its network this year.

Speaking to journalists in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of the zone, Oladele Amoda, said over N500 million was spent to replace obsolete 33 KVA and 11 KVA switch gears in some parts of the state.

According to him, such replacements were made in many injection substations in Festac, Satellite, Amuwo, Ademola, Beckley, Orile, Coker, Lekki, and Oke-lra Kekere, among others.

"Another N750 million was spent to construct additional 500KVA/300KVA distribution transformers installed to reinforce the network," he said.

He added that the project would boost the country's power sector, acknowledging the financial support of the Ministry of Power.

Amoda also said that 17 Nigeria Independent Power Projects (NIPP) in the zone would be completed by the end of the year, adding that ten had already been completed and inaugurated.

He said about 28,000 pre-paid meters, single and three-phase, were installed in the last six months, while 50 KVA transformers had been distributed to various NIPP projects.

Meanwhile, a resident, Gbenga Fabowale, said there was nothing to justify the huge spending going into the country's power sector.

"We still don't have good light; all we hear is that they have spent money on this and that, but nothing to show for it," he said.

bayooooooo: Lawan will not be sentenced on the pages of Newspaper. All the pieces of evidence available at the public domain so far can not be used to even convict a world renown devil. They are too weak to even warrant prosecution as a mere no case submission will get those charges dropped.

The purported audio can even be discredited on sole account of incompleteness. If it's incomplete, then it must have been edited and if edited, it's not far fetched to emboss the notorious word "doctored" on the brea$t plate of the evidence and get it inadmissible in the court of law. Leaking this type of evidence does a great disservice to the case. It's even worse if the leakage is not emanating from the Police which as investigators are the rightful custodians of evidence.

I am of the opinion that the whole hullabaloo is to discredit the subsidy report and renders it infertile, worthless and non implementable.The powers that be are not interested in unearthing the truth not to even talk of meting out deserved punishment else the house would not call Otedola for a patently laughable in door session and the SSS that purportedly led the sting operation allowed the evidence to be discredited even before prosecution.

PDP is a party of kleptomaniacal thieves, wicked killers, recidivist liars, unpardonable villains and it will stop at nothing to see the destruction of Nigeria. The earlier we voted the thieves in power out the better for this country.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday ordered the National Youth Service Corps to stop posting graduates who have been mobilised for the compulsory national service to volatile states in Northern Nigeria.
The lawmakers gave this directive following protests by corps members posted to such states that their lives would be in danger due to the Boko Haram crisis.

The House, however, said that those corps members who wish to serve in such states should be allowed to do so, including their indigenes.

Billyonaire: Free Cocoa, must the President be brought into every discussion ?