The governor of Nasarawa State, Engr. Abdullahi, has stated that it is sad Nigeria is still generating below 60,000 megawatt (MW) of electricity despite the ambitious plan to bring the country's power generation to 50,000MW by 2020.
The governor who spoke at the 32 Engineering Assembly organised by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) said the ambitious plan was part of the vision 20:2020, which was supposed to bring Nigeria to be among the twentieth richest country in the world.
"We know about the various power challenges in the country, in the year 2009 when the vision 20:2020 was formed, I was in the power committee, we were generating about 6,000MW of power, we made a commitment and say that either from hydro, gas turbines and other areas of power production, we were going to be producing 50,000MG of power by the year 2020 and we will be the 20th economy, needless to say, today, we are 15 years later and we are still generating less than 6000 we used to generate."
He emphasised on the need for the county to move from fossil fuel and embrace cleaner energy which Nigeria has in abundance.
He also stated the country should search inwardly to make mining a source of revenue, stating that Nasarawa is among four states contributing over N1bn to the federation account each.
On his part, the President of COREN, Engr. Prof. Sadiq Abubaka, said it has developed a technique to investigate the issues making building collapse thrive in the country.
"For the first time in this country we are going to x-ray the sector that allows building collapse to thrive. We have developed a technique that is very comprehensive and will allow us to track who is doing what at what point. Who is not doing its job, an individual or organisations, so that we will be able to track and have very comprehensive recommendations on ways to mitigate these collapses."
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, said the standards COREN sets and the professional ethics it enforces are critical to ensuring the quality, safety, and resilience of housing and infrastructure projects across the nation.
