Power outage worsens as electricity generation drops by 1,800MW

The widespread power blackouts suffered by Nigerians is about to worsen in the coming weeks as the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, has disclosed of a drop in power generation from 4,500MW to 2700MW within the last five weeks.

While revealing this to Senate Correspondents yesterday shortly after briefing the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Igali informed that gas and crude oil pipeline vandals were responsible for the drastic drop in power generation.

He blamed the drop in power generation to the increased rate of vandalism perpetrated daily by vandals on both oil and gas pipelines across the country since last month.