The Nigerian government has paid over N200 billion to all stakeholders in the power sector to step up and improve electricity supply.<\/p>\n\n\n
Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) confirmed in Abuja after a meeting with Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman and Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Mr Usman Mohammed.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cActually the federal government has made payment of over N200 billion for power in the last 23 days and this will go a long way to ensure that issues around power supply are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWe will work as a team to ensure that all issues are settled, \u2018\u2019he said.<\/p>\n\n\n
Kyari said that team was in the Ministry of Power to inform the minister that in the last one or two months and particularly during the COVID-19 period NNPC has increased gas supply to the power sector.<\/p>\n\n\n
According to him, there will be significant improvement in power generation in all federal government and associated power facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201c This also means that Nigerians will get better access to power during this lockdown period and going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThere are issues around power supply process and we have discussed most of them and we are moving as a team to make sure that we resolve issues around payment and evacuation.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWe are very confident that this will get the desired result. We will visit some power plants tomorrow to make sure that we sort out any issue to ensure that Nigerians have access to better power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n
He said that the minister was very clear on what was to be done to improve power supply.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWe will make sure this becomes transparent and obvious to all Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
On his part, TCN Managing Director, Mr Usman Mohammed said that the meeting was to ensure that there was constant supply of power as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n\n\n
Mohammed said that the president has directed that there should be constant power supply to the people during the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThis is why this meeting was conveyed by the minister of power to discuss supply of gas to the power plants.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThis is very important before now we have been discussing with NNPC, of course there is gas availability in the market but there are several power plants that don\u2019t have gas and that is a big problem for us.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n
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