Electricity Tariffs: What Power Minister said and didn’t say – Gaffar Tunde

An expert and stakeholder successful the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, Gaffar Tunde, has clarified the remarks made by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, connected energy tariffs during a media engagement successful Abuja on Friday.

Do we truly person the involvement of our state astatine bosom oregon are we hell-bent connected seeing them fail? News reports person been fraught with inaccurate details regarding an alleged program by the Federal Government to summation tariffs and region subsidies. Many radical person been reporting misleading accusation alternatively than the facts.

Here is an relationship of the existent authorities of the media enactment the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe held with elder journalists to little them connected activities successful the powerfulness assemblage since helium assumed office.

Addressing the media executives contiguous astatine the interaction, the Minister highlighted cardinal precedence areas for his enactment of the sector.

Firstly, helium said his frist precedence is simply a broad method audit of the transmission conception of the energy network. The audit is expected to place ageing assets, overloaded substations, anemic transmission corridors, extortion failur...