{"id":175984,"date":"2025-08-25T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:23:14","slug":"nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Ranks Second to India in Electricity Access Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has said Nigeria is the second country in the world with the highest number of people living without access to electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Monday, Aliyu explained that only India has more people without power supply than Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He however stressed that the current administration has put in place a structured plan to address what he called electricity poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recently came across a post by The Economist which showed that only India has more people without electricity access than Nigeria. But unlike many other countries, Nigeria now has a well-structured plan to address this challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu noted that the REA does not operate on the national grid but focuses on off-grid and underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a problem with your Disco, that\u2019s not within our mandate. Our focus is on communities without access to electricity,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the agency\u2019s ongoing projects, the REA boss pointed to the Distributed Access to Renewable Energy Scale (DARES) initiative, describing it as the largest public renewable energy project in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the $750 million programme aims to deliver electricity to 17.5 million Nigerians who currently live without power.<\/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 Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has said Nigeria is the second country in the world with the highest number of people living without access to electricity. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Monday, Aliyu explained that only India has more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[508,255,254,18545],"class_list":["post-175984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-electricity","tag-india","tag-nigeria","tag-rea-md"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Ranks Second to India in Electricity Access Issues - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has said Nigeri ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria Ranks Second to India in Electricity Access Issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has said Nigeri ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T10:20:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T11:23:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108548.146382.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"733\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria Ranks Second to India in Electricity Access Issues\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-25T10:20:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-25T11:23:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108548.146382.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"electricity\",\"India\",\"Nigeria\",\"REA MD\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigeria-ranks-second-to-india-in-electricity-access-issues\",\"name\":\"Nigeria Ranks Second to India in Electricity Access Issues - 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