{"id":160281,"date":"2025-04-23T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/power-ministers-claim-that-150m-nigerians-enjoy-adequate-electricity-insulting-nlc-president-ajaero"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:01:50","slug":"power-ministers-claim-that-150m-nigerians-enjoy-adequate-electricity-insulting-nlc-president-ajaero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/power-ministers-claim-that-150m-nigerians-enjoy-adequate-electricity-insulting-nlc-president-ajaero","title":{"rendered":"Power Minister\u2019s claim that 150m Nigerians enjoy adequate electricity insulting \u2013 NLC President Ajaero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has condemned what it terms an outrageous statement credited to the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, claiming that 150 million Nigerians now enjoy \u201cadequate electricity\u201d with 5,500MW.<\/p>\n<p>President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, condemned the statement in a release on Wednesday, saying this wild assertion is not only pretentious, it is a bad joke on a people daily confronted by grinding darkness, outrageous electricity tariffs, and a power sector manipulated for private profit at the expense of national progress.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NLC President, for the minister to suggest that over 150 million Nigerians have access to reliable power in a country that struggles to generate a meagre and inconsistent 5,000 megawatts\u2014far below the global benchmark of 1,000MW per one million people\u2014is to insult the intelligence and lived realities of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He said by that standard, Nigeria should be generating no less than 150,000MW to justify such a claim. Yet, even on its best day, the country\u2019s electricity generation has never exceeded 5,500MW\u2014and that figure remains unstable and unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>NLC went on to say, \u201cWe want to ask, is Nigeria\u2019s standard different from world standard? Where are the power plants that make this level of supply possible? Where is the upgraded transmission infrastructure to support such output?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are our homes still shrouded in darkness and our factories shutting down daily? This is not how performance is measured but could be likened to a joke carried too far. The truth is that millions of Nigerians, from urban slums to rural communities, continue to live without access to electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe few who have access do so under constant threat of disconnection, blackouts, and financial exploitation through a complex pyramid of inflated tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crisis we face today is the direct result of the grand betrayal that was the 2013 power sector privatisation\u2014an exercise that handed over the nation\u2019s critical infrastructure to cronies for just N400 billion. Over a decade later, there has been no improvement in service delivery. Yet, these same GenCos and DISCOs, which have failed the nation woefully, are to receive over N4 trillion in public subsidies with zero accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has condemned what it terms an outrageous statement credited to the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, claiming that 150 million Nigerians now enjoy \u201cadequate electricity\u201d with 5,500MW. 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