The minister said the electricity supply has worsened despite an improvement in electricity generation across the country.
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“The Ministry has been exerting pressure on the Generating Companies to enhance their performance, resulting in a recent increase in generation to over 4000MW. Earlier this month, the Nigerian government identified the primary reason for the country’s poor power supply as the insufficient supply of gas to generating companies.
This reduction in available power affected the amount of bulk power accessible on the transmission grid, thereby impacting the distribution of electricity to load centres nationwide.
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