Nigeria’s Energy Crisis . . . Any End in Sight?

Since the coming of the present administration, Nigerians have not witnessed the worst level of power generation and supply as they are presently going through.

The effect is that big and small-scale industries are closing down. Government appears incapable of dealing with the problem even as the terminal date nears. Roland Ogbonnaya writes. Additional report by Oluwatimilehin Oyekanmi


Last week a middle-aged woman brought her five year-old daughter to the Lagos State Health Centre in Ikotun, Ejigbo, an outskirt of Lagos metropolis. The body of the baby was full of heat rashes and on further diagnosis, the baby also had diarrhea. The mother said that in the last one month her area has not had any electricity and as a result there is nothing to power the borehole in the compound, the only source of their drinking water where she lives. As a result, they consume any manner of water that comes their way as there is no pipe-borne water in Ejigbo and its environs.

The little girl that now cries uncontrollably on the laps of her mother as a result of the irritation from the heat rashes was put under the condition due to the absence of electricity. Every part of the country today is not spared the worsening energy crisis. The hair dresser or welder in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Kaura Namoda in Zamfara State or Nsit Ubiom in Akwa Ibom, have been thrown out of work because they cannot practice their chosen vocation due to lack of power.

This Day (Lagos)