Sodipo Olawumi: Tinubu, gridlock at the docks and Nigeria’s power sector

President Bola Tinubu past week ordered the contiguous clearance of much than 300 containers of energy instrumentality that had been stranded astatine Nigerian ports for betwixt 14 and 20 years.

The Minister of Power, Olasunkanmi Joseph Tegbe, disclosed this aft the Federal Executive Council, FEC, gathering astatine the State House.

These are not bare containers. They incorporate captious grid infrastructure, including high-capacity transformers, cables, switchgear and different transmission instrumentality meant to fortify the nationalist grid.

Minister Tegbe said: "Those containers are not bare containers. It is appalling to spot that we find ourselves successful specified situations."

The instrumentality was imported by the Federal Government done the Ministry of Power and the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, nether assorted energy projects implicit the years, including the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), TCN donor-funded projects and the Presidential Power Initiative.

The Minister confirmed that the high-capacity transformers had to beryllium manufactured overseas due to the fact that Nigeria lacked the specialised concern capableness to nutrient instrumentality of that specification. Consequently, they were imported from manufacturers successful China, Germany and different countries.

The instrumentality was intended for nationwide transmission expansion...