Nigeria's public power supply system now generates 4,500 megawatts of electricity but only 2,500 megawatts of this is being transmitted, the Presidential Steering Committee on National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) said in Abuja yesterday.
Governors Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State and Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, who briefed reporters after the committee's meeting at the State House, attributed government's inability to transmit all the power generated to inadequacies in the transmission lines. The committee chaired by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has as members six governors, each representing a geo-political zone.
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