POWER SECTOR IN PERSPECTIVE, A REMINDER TO BUHARI:
Written by LUCAS ANUFORO, Dublin Ireland Email: peter.lemachi@yahoo.com “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”... Brandon Sanderson. The Nigerian power inefficiency still remains the bane of the country’s gateway to industrialisation. The country economic power will only thrive and surge when the government shows consensual effort through mettle mechanism in boosting the power sector. The nation at moment consumes about 3,000 megawatts of electricity which by any standard cannot sustain the demand of a country with a huge population like Nigeria. The Kainji dam is the main source of the nation’s power supply that was built between 1964 and 1968 by a consortium of Italian Civil Engineering Contractors and was designed by joint Consultants, Balfour Beatty and Nedeco a British company. The total cost of the project was estimated at £87 million with one-quarter of the said amount used for res...