Nigeria: Fashola's Onerous Task of Fixing Electricity

17 November 2015
analysis

Chineme Okafor writes that the job of the new power minister, Babatunde Fashola is clear-cut, especially after President Muhammadu Buhari's pledge to provide Nigerians with stable power supply.

In his inaugural speech as Nigeria's new President on May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed worry that Nigeria's economic woes were traceable to her poor power supply. He also said it was embarrassing for the country to have spent huge resources in restructuring the sector without any real returns on the investments so far made.

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