Areas That Had No Light for Three Months Are Now Getting 18 Hours — Power Minister Joseph Tegbe
Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has highlighted improvements in electricity supply, saying some areas that previously went without power for months are now experiencing up to 18 hours of electricity daily.
Tegbe said some residents even contacted him to complain that their freezers were working so much that food was freezing, joking that freezing food was the purpose of having a freezer.
“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours light. Some areas called me to say, ‘Look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.’ That is what freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen,” he said.
The minister also said much of Nigeria’s electricity infrastructure is more than 40 years old and is being systematically replaced.
“Some of the infrastructure we have in the electricity and power sector are more than 40 years old. We’re systematically replacing them, phasing them out and bringing new ones,” Tegbe said.
