Blackout: Nigeria running on generators 130 years after — Dino Melaye blasts FG

Former Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has expressed interest astir Nigeria’s energy sector, stressing that the country’s powerfulness problems are owed to mediocre governance and not conscionable method issues.

In a connection helium posted connected X, Melaye said that adjacent though Nigeria has been producing energy for much than a century, the state inactive has debased powerfulness output and often faces powerfulness outages.

“Nigeria has been generating energy since 1896. That’s 130 years. Today, successful March 2026, the nationalist grid conscionable dropped to 3,940 megawatts. For 220 cardinal people,” helium said.

He looked astatine however Nigeria did compared to different African countries and pointed retired large differences, noting that South Africa produces much than 48,000 megawatts of energy to powerfulness 60 cardinal people.

“Egypt has astir 11,000 MW installed capableness for 110 million. Nigeria? About 13,000MW installed. On a bully day, we tin lone determination astir 4,000 to 5,000MW done the grid. The remainder conscionable sits there. Wasted,” helium added.

Melaye besides mentioned that determination person been galore instances of the powerfulness grid failing a...