Formally it was NEPA (National Electric Power Authority),
but now it is PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria). Others that are operating the same way are EKEDC (Eko Distribution Company Plc) or it's like in other parts of the country.
Whether NEPA, PHCN, OR EKEDC, closely looking at their inability to
provide stable supply of electricity in Nigeria, one
can categorize them as the number one (NO. 1) economic saboteurs of the Nigerian Economy.
Most parts of the country, if not all, are presently being ravaged by devastating lack of electricity supply. It didn't just start today - it has lingered for several decades and It is a challenge that has drastically helped in grinding the country's economy below expected levels.
Power problem has been resident in Nigeria for a very long time
that some Nigerians have never seen 6 hours uninterrupted power supply since they were
born! It is this same problem that promising and reliable minds have, at
different times, been drafted to tackle but ended up being
tackled! Nigerians, as a people have been living with power outages for
over four decades now and have lived to manage themselves around the problem.
As the years goes by, the problem does not seem to abate - there seems to be no
solution in sight. All we hear in the news is that several billions of dollars
which can not be accounted for was injected into the power sector with nothing
to show for it. It looks like the government is overtly clueless as to how to
revamp and revive the power sector and they are not treating the problem as a
matter of national emergency.
