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Fashola said this during his visit to Afam Plant in Oyibo local government area of Rivers as part of Federal Government Power Sector Recovery Programme.

The marginal improvement in power supply in some parts of the country has been attributed to increase in power generation occasioned by the raining season.

The Joint Senate Committee on Power, Employment, Labour and Productivity Tuesday lamented the deplorable state of power supply in the country and told the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to live up to his responsibility. Lamenting the state of power supply in the country, the Senate committee accused Fashola of defending what it perceived as an unjustifiable …

The Power, Works and Housing Minister, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has again assured the nation that incremental, steady and eventual uninterrupted power supply is achievable in the country appealing, however, that it could only happen if the citizenry cooperate with the government by taking ownership of and protecting the various power supply facilities across the country.

I think the biggest contribution will come from the communities through whose territories these pipelines pass, to take ownership, to stand as security vanguards for the protection of pipeline assets because if the pipelines work it benefits them more. With the best of intentions, how many kilometres of pipeline could any government really police? And they are as diverse as …