By Ediri Ejoh
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has ascribed the development in the country’s power sector to the inclusion of incremental power in its programme.
In a statement made available to Vanguard, the minister said the power sector had come a long way from its epileptic nature over the years.
He said: “I will like to start my remarks by highlighting the progress and milestones on our journey for incremental power, which reassure us that we are on the right path and inspire us to continue with more belief.
“Those milestones are represented by the fact that generated power has gone up to 7000 MW in 2017 from 3,000 MW in May 2015; Transmission capacity at 6900MW in 2017 from about 5,000 MW in May 2015 and peak distribution now averaging 5,000 MW in 2017 from 2,690MW in 2015.
“They tell me that their consumption of diesel and…
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