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That is because fixing and power in Nigeria is a rocket science

elevated2:
During the first six months of General Buhari, power supply was great without him doing nothing.

What was the secret then?

The secret is PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies as well as the increased power generation, which APC unfortunately have failed to sustain.

We thank God that PDP deregulation and prosperity politicians added1,400 Mws to the grid unlike their APC chochocho balablu fake promises opponents.

High on promises but too low for zero on delivery. That is All Promises Cancelled, APC.

Buhari’s administration to generate 20,000mw of electricity in four years – APCPCO
Published on February 2, 2015

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) on Sunday promised to provide Nigerians with 20,000 megawatts (mw) of electricity within the first four years it takes over governance at the federal level. It maintained that its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) will improve the nation’s power situation significantly, if elected.

The proposed 20,000mw of electricity to be generated by the party in four years time will surpass Nigeria’s present consumption rate of around 15,000mw, the party had said.

Disclosing this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, APCPCO expressed disappointment that the federal government under *President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration has only succeeded in adding 1.400mw to the national grid in four years.*

https://dailypost.ng/2015/02/02/buharis-administration-generate-20000mw-electricity-four-years-apcpco/

GloriousGbola:
the power problem can be solved if we as nigerians are willing to bite the bullet and start paying actual cost of power. no one is going to invest in power when it is still being subsidized. that is the reality. nigeria can no longer afford to subsidise power

there is also the issue of corrupt legacy nepa staff all through the system who have the govt is paying for power mindset and who will continue to sabotage metering initiatives for their own gain

Don’t mind all those ignorant kids who propose simple solutions to complex problems. If it were that easy why has the problem persisted outlasting 15 different presidents and heads of state? The solution requires everyone to make sacrifices as you have said, but nobody is ready for that, they prefer to whin and complain while hoping for one messiah that would make power cheap and available miraculously

This topic doesn't concern me.

Just spend 1.5 million on solar power for your homes and offices.

You'll thank me for it.

Let Nigeria do as they like, it doesn't concern me. I have I-don't-care attitude.

I'm a Biafran.

God bless MNK

Moderator101:
Source: https://www.thecable.ng/why-no-nigerian-leader-can-fix-power-in-one-year/

What rubbish is this one talking now. Stable power supply has never been the desire of both the Federal and the state government over the years. If it has been their desire over many past years, it would have been achieved. If a single individual could raise enough money to build a $20billion refinery, which a whole govt has not been able to do, in spite of huge revenue that has been collected over many years from crude oil, i don't believe the government does not have enough to give stable power supply to the country

Well, well, it's more than a decade long problem but a step in the right direction and then a pinch of sustainable continuity is needed for any project of such scale to come to pass.

And again we are blessed with the most useless set of public officers who will rather soak their hands in looting the treasury dry than doing what will benefit the general good.

And for the citizens too, not for all because some are clearly delusional, less expectations is what have kept most of them going and not the empty promises and false hope sold at every election period.

anonimi:
The secret is PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies as well as the increased power generation, which APC unfortunately have failed to sustain.

We thank God that PDP deregulation and prosperity politicians added1,400 Mws to the grid unlike their APC chochocho balablu fake promises opponents.

High on promises but too low for zero on delivery. That is All Promises Cancelled, APC.

God bless PDP (1999-2015)

Write-ups like this one are made to subtly justify the failure of the current government to keep to its campaign promises. Save us the whining. A failure is a failure
Bart Nnaji was power minister for just a year and everyone could testify to the improvement in the power sector. Three more years would have completely changed the Nigerian power system to world standards but then Nigeria is cursed with bad leaders.

Ghaliz:
The writer might be a little thick. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam generates about 5,000MW about to the same as Nigeria's output. It costs $5 billion to build. Tinubu's administration awarded the coastal road for $15 billion without competitive bidding to his friend while Nigeria's existing road network was largely decrepit.

He could have awarded a 5,000 MW dam, invested in transmission capacity and still had a few billion dollars to upgrade existing infrastructure.

My dear folks Nigeria is unsalvageable, this realisation fills me with sadness, Nigeria's political class is getting more emboldened to inflict even more hardship upon Nigerians

Nigeria is in the era of "to your tents O Israel"

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anonimi:
If PDP’s power sector privatisation was poorly done, why have brilliant APC leaders looters failed to rework it?

Was that not how PDP’s Jonathan reworked the Lagos-Ibadan road construction that had been concessioned by Obasanjo to Bi-Courteney in 2014

Government usually would never want to directly blame the works of their predessesors! Buhari won't want to blame GEJ. And BAT won't want that too! That's politics! But that privatization needs to be checked and unbundles!

Let Government sell everything including transmission to experts with financial backings!

How long does it take to build a 500MW plant? I believe it is possible in one year. 500 of it can be built simultaneously. All industrialized countries have thousands of power plants but Nigeria has tens

Tenses:
All these talk is to exonerate that fraud of a president that made a claim he clearly has no capacity to deliver.

When you know the problem you have then you can focus of getting solutions! No one is exonorating anyone! If the foundation of a building is weak, nothing you build on it will stand! You still need to revisit the foundation!

I can do it

benardtotti:
Private investment will not come unless you pay cost reflective tariff, dangote poured money into that refinery because
1. He got support fr9m fg
2. He was assured subsidy will go completely so prices can be reflective.

I have said it before ,everything tinubu has done so far is what any serious leader would do to set Nigeria on the path of development, it's not popular but needs to be done , if investors see that these policies will still be alive for the next decade ,many of them will rush to invest in critical sectors in Nigeria.

I don't want to discuss Tinubu
Can we respect that please


What serious countries do is they have serious institutions that survive governments

So we need the right policies and consistency regardless of who is in power

Yes people should pay for what they consume but my point is going forward every state can make different choices
We are no longer tied to the same fate

Some states will crack the problem a lot quicker

What the FG can and should do is encourage Abuja to do the same

Alex otti and nnaji did it within 2
When you vote kleptos into power do not expect anything other than pure theft
And btw what is this tagging of Okwute with all these other politicians
The man has told you countless times
GO AND VERIFY!!!!
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We have 13,000MW but only 5,000MW generating power so where is the remaining 8,000MW gone?

Op is fraudulent with his message,
Tell me which president has ruled Nigeria for only a year?
Obasanjo= 8year
Jonathan=2 -6 years
Buhari= 8 years
Tinubu 4 years
And there was 24hrs light?
Nigeria is a mess , the sooner U know the better.
If we do nothing about it, we will suffer for it,
Allow government to be stealing from U and U be claiming my tribe is there

Great read 👏🏽. If Tinubu wants to be rejected forever in the good books of Nigeria 🇳🇬, he should increase the output to 25,000MW. ♾

Imagine the 15trillion naira spend on coastal road is given to general electric GE or global big electrical company,to give us Constant electricity. Do you know what that would do to the country? But Tinubu took the money to construct a road, why not fix the already existing road, and use the 15tr to fix power for once in this country, and write your name in gold for life in our hearts

Peter obi can fixx power, if agbadorens didn't grab, it run away with It



The landgrabber
The talkative akpapio
Can't fix power if only obi was there this post we never be posted in nairaland

Excuses are springing up here and there. Their messiah said if in his first grabbed tenure the whole country does not experience his renewed hopelessness in electricity improvement, his standing mandate minions should not snatch for him again if he comes for the 2nd grabbing and snatching

Leepeak:
Peter obi can fixx power, if agbadorens didn't grab, it run away with It



The landgrabber
The talkative akpapio
Can't fix power if only obi was there this post we never be posted in nairaland

I am Igbo,
And from Anambra..
Obi can't fix ssssshhhhiiiit
They are all same,
When he was governor of Anambra, how many time did I see light when I travelled to my village ?

If I was Nigerian president here is a shortcut I would use to solve Nigerian powe crisis

Firstly remove all taxes on all solar accessories such as solar inverters , solar panels , lithium batteries

Secondly subsided whatever solar accessories are being imported to Nigeria

Two things would happen Solar would be so cheap a lithium battery that costs 500k right now might be as cheap as 50,000 naira

What then happens is solar inverters is so cheap that a typical 1kva system might cost less than 150,000 naira

Fine the government would lose some money in taxes that it was meant to get on imported solar accessories

But the end product would be greater

Each household in Nigeria would directly or indirectly generate its own power

That like almost 50,000 megawatts via solar panels generated

From barber shops to hotels to schools

Even factories would install solar because it is bloody cheap so cheap some would even go to waste

All civil servants too that work for the FG can also receive inverter system from the subsidy

Overnight Nigerian problem would be solved

There would be less pressure on the grid

Some people would even disconnect thier nepa light cos there is no point

Also sun is free , solar panels lasts 10 years or so

Same with lithium batteries

So just one move

Millions of consequences

This is what I would do if I was Nigeria president

Waiting 15 years to generator enough MW is too expensive

The plan is to do TO NEPA what MTN did to NITEL

give an alternative that would make nepa obsolete

GloriousGbola:
the power problem can be solved if we as nigerians are willing to bite the bullet and start paying actual cost of power. no one is going to invest in power when it is still being subsidized. that is the reality. nigeria can no longer afford to subsidise power

there is also the issue of corrupt legacy nepa staff all through the system who have the govt is paying for power mindset and who will continue to sabotage metering initiatives for their own gain

Subsidy for electricity has since been removed, so what's your point.?

Moderator101:
I know long write-ups aren’t everyone’s thing, so here are 10 clear, summarised points from the news article.

With elections around the corner, pay close attention to points 4, 6 and 10.

1. Nigeria’s electricity crisis is decades old and unresolved — promises of ending blackouts date back to 1986, yet grid collapses still occur regularly in 2026.

2. Every political era has failed — military rule, civilian governments, privatisation (2013), the Siemens deal, and the Electricity Act have all delivered little to nothing.

3. Power generation remains disastrously low — Nigeria produces under 6,000MW for over 200 million people, despite 66 years of independence.

4. Government celebrates mediocrity — record generation of 5,543MW in 2025 was treated as a major achievement despite being globally insignificant.

5. Peer countries expose Nigeria’s failure — South Africa and Egypt generate ~58,000MW each; Ghana, with 33 million people, produces nearly as much power as Nigeria.

6. Billions in funding have been wasted — over $4.36 billion in World Bank loans for power reforms vanished without fixing generation, transmission, or distribution.

7. State-level power generation is financially unrealistic— building a 300MW plant costs $400 million to over $2.5 billion, far beyond most state budgets.

8. 24-hour power in one year is a political fantasy — Nigeria needs 40,000–50,000MW, nearly ten times current output, making such promises mathematically impossible.

9. The real fix is extremely expensive and long-term — repairing generation, transmission, and distribution requires $80–125 billion and at least 10–15 years.

10. Progress demands honesty, accountability, and realism — Nigerians must reject false promises, demand prosecutions for corruption, support incremental targets, and enable private investment.

How come you did not say anything about a commercially viable tariff? Why did you think privatization has failed to solve the power problem? It’s obvious to all of us that we don’t have the $80billion to fix the problem. So, where can we get the money from if not from public sector? Now, why will the private sector put in such money if they won’t be allowed to charge a cost reflective rate?

From generation to transmission to distribution, FG subsidize all the energy value chains. So, are Nigerians willing to pay for the actual market value for electricity? I can bet you’re one of those abusing Tinubu because of his reforms, now, will you still support a president that is willing to completely deregulate the power sector?

tesseract:
Subsidy for electricity has since been removed, so what's your point.?

How much is band A paying and how much is band B paying? Who do you think is paying for the shortfall between the two bands?

Il wholeheartedly supported what you said.

If our leaders can be held accountable for their actions, Nigeria will return back to it's prime age within two tenure of government.

There are other countries that destabilised in the 60s and 70s that are doing better ten times than us here.

And the their only solution was an effective government.
Government that do not lie to their citizens.

What Nigeria needs is a truthful government that has the thought of their citizens at heart and not their pocket.

It will still get better, but I honestly don't believe if the change will come from this our generation, may be the next genz to come.




quote author=chatinent post=138392127]The forest kept shrinking, yet the trees continued voting for the axe, because the axe cleverly convinced them that, since its handle was made of wood, it was one of them.

The forest will reduce in toto until it becomes so difficult to keep defending the axe.

Nigeria could be fixed in less than six months, if the genuine will to do so existed. However, how can one expect those who rigged their way into power to dismantle the very system that benefited them? Why would those who paid fortunes to secure their positions seek to repair what they purchased? The profound truth is that until public office is made less attractive for personal gain, and until established corrupt figures face the ultimate consequence—not merely a prison sentence, but execution—corruption will be never cease to exist. And like an old grandmother forced to learn to walk again, Nigeria will continue to struggle and falter.

A fish rots from the head down. The head is extremely corrupt, what do you expect the body to be?


The painful reality it that the top contenders are still very corrupt...like from the frying plan to the burning furnace.

I vote for the public execution of established corrupt people...starting from the godfathers.

Without these radical changes, the nation’s painful journey toward functionality will remain endless.

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adonainana:
If I was Nigerian president here is a shortcut I would use to solve Nigerian powe crisis

Where will you get $80billion to invest in the sector?

seunmsg:
How much is band A paying and how much is band B paying? Who do you think is paying for the shortfall between the two bands?

Answer my question. The per Kwh energy consumption between bands A, B or C are tantamount to the cost of electricity available to those bands and the cost has been increased about twice or thrice to make up for any shortfall you are talking about. So?

LZAA:
Alex otti and nnaji did it within 2
When you vote kleptos into power do not expect anything other than pure theft
And btw what is this tagging of Okwute with all these other politicians
The man has told you countless times
GO AND VERIFY!!!!
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

Work started on Geometric power plant in 2005. I can bet you were still in primary 2 then so you won’t know.