24 February 2010
Nigeria: We Must Achieve 6,000 Megawatts – Jonathan
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Excerpts from Golu Timothy’s article of Sunday, 21st February 2010 (Leadership, Abuja)
Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan said in Abuja On Sunday, that government’s dream to actualize 6,000 megawatts of electricity had not gone down the drain. He challenged relevant institutions to wake up and ensure the dream was met.
To this end, Dr. Jonathan said government had set a daily target of one billion cubic feet of gas supply for the ministry of petroleum resources, so that complaints of gas shortage should not keep cropping up.
A reliable top presidency source, who confided in reporters said, the acting president had tasked the ministry to ensure that the management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), Shell, Chevron and other major gas producers in the country are compelled to provide the required quantity of dry gas. This is geared towards meeting the target of 6,000 megawatts of electricity for the country.
According to the source, “The Acting President is very unhappy with the ministry for its failure to generate gas to power the government’s 6,000 megawatts of electricity. He has directed that all the gas producers in the country must provide the one billion daily gas target to the power plants.”
Jonathan was visibly angry during last week’s meeting of the Presidential Steering Council on National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), when he directed the minister of petroleum resources, Dr. Rilwan Lukman, to summon all the gas producers in the country to a meeting to iron out the grey areas in the one billion gas daily supply arrangement.
Read all about it: http://allafrica.com/stories/201002220151.html
2 Comments so far...
Hrh Tosin Jalade Says:
25 February 2010 at 1:29 am.
I think Nigeria has all the resources it needs. Should be able to generate enough gas for the electricity project, i hate to say this but Bangladesh ’s got loads of gas as a natural resource, hope that helps but i believe if we can put up a few more refineries, that supply could be met without much dependency.
Hrh Tosin Jalade Says:
25 February 2010 at 1:33 am.
I think Nigeria has all the resources it needs. Should be able to generate enough gas for the electricity project, i hate to say this but Bangladesh ’s got loads of gas as a natural resource, hope that helps but i believe if we can put up a few more refineries, that supply could be met without much dependency meaning more refineries have to work, Nigeria.
