Minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, said some states in the country now enjoy close to 24 hours of electricity supply.
Fashola said this on a live programme on Channels Television.
He said Kebbi and Yobe States were some of the states that experience electricity supply almost round the clock.
The increase, according to him, is owed to increase in transmission capacity which grew with about 8,100 watts as of December 2018.
He said distribution networks have been the major challenge in making power available all the time.
The minister added that the federal government is ready to invest N72 billion to install transformers and expand distribution.
“Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five, some have 10 and there are still outages.
“The generation capacity is also increasing. It is a value chain where the distribution is not matching up the available power and from time to time, there are slacks.
“The short term goals are incremental power and stable supply in some places.
“The government has decided that as 40 per cent holder of everything in the distribution of power, we have our programme to invest N72 billion which will involve installing transformers and all of that,” Fashola said.
He also said the metre access provider regulation of the federal government would bring solutions to the challenges in the power sector.
