Showing posts with label Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa of Tanzania. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Our Intractable Electricity Conundrum

 By Adekunle Adekoya

As a people, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves when it comes to electricity.  Since 1972 when the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, ECN, was merged with the Niger Dams Authority to create the National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, millions of Nigerians have been born and have died with their dreams of living in a country with reliable power supply unrealised.


From one foible to another, the political class, whether military or civilian, have lurched from one excuse to another for this shame that has refused to go away.