‘Not even a flash in 3 weeks’, ‘We enjoy 20 hours per day in PH’ – Nigerians share their experiences on power supply
“Sitting down here I can tell you some states have almost 24 hours of power supply,” Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, had said at a programme on Channels Television.
Fashola’s comment sparked mixed reactions. While Shehu Sanni, senator representing Kaduna central, taunted the minister saying the states enjoying almost 24 hours power supply are in other planets, some corroborated what Fashola said.
TheCable launched a social media campaign on the number of hours that people get electricity supply and here are some of the reactions:
SPEAK OUT! How many hours of power supply do you have in a day?
Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook… #LetThereBeLight #TheCableVoxPop Cc @tundefashola @toluogunlesi @Omojuwa pic.twitter.com/Ej8yz3oTnkAdvertisement— TheCable (@thecableng) April 5, 2019
It's been two days without power in Apo Resettlement Abuja. Everything going bad in the fridge, the heat? another matter and when we have power, the voltage is bad, we use stabilizer for everything.
Advertisement— #LoveAndCompassion (@Jimidamilola) April 5, 2019
Please seem we are not part of Nigeria again because for the past 3weeks No light not even a flash
— gregory oziegbe (@uwa147) April 6, 2019
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more than 4 days now no electricity.
— Segun Jesugo (@SJesugo) April 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/NigerianPrefect/status/1114134302571356160
Festac Town 722 Road. Maximum 6 hours a day some days NO power at all.
Advertisement— STANLEY SOLOMON A AWOTIDE (@soloawo) April 5, 2019
Akute, Ogun State. 8am-1pm, then 8pm -12midnight. We have to spend the whole night fanning ourselves because of the heat..
— cute_ty (@MyInfo84546927) April 6, 2019
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Here in Lagos at Abule egba we 3hrs a day very poor in this hot weather.
— babalola james (@babalola1james) April 8, 2019
On the average less than an hour a day in some area here in Umuahia.
— James Okwoche (@JamesOkwoche) April 7, 2019
Power getting worse at IKORODU agric axis, Also NO METER
— Archbishop ROBERTS (@archbshproberts) April 12, 2019
In Piwoyi off Airport road Before Lugbe close to Shoprite, it is rationing-one day on one day off. And even at that it is not consistence but bills are always high. Please we need additional transformer.
— Emmanuel Atser 💸 (@emmanuel_atser) April 13, 2019
On the average less than an hour a day in some area here in Umuahia.
— James Okwoche (@JamesOkwoche) April 7, 2019
1 to 2hrs in Adigbe Abeokuta.
— Gbenga Akindele (@iyaanuni) April 6, 2019
In Akungba as a student of Adekunle Ajasin University. We don't have light in days
— Ojurere Kayode-Oluwafemi (@Femi_Kay_) April 6, 2019
Here in Ojo Isashi, we have just 4hrs power supply a day, most times blackout and at the end of the month we pay bill of 15,000 naira What we consume is not even up to 1000 naira monthly. But we pay heavily for nothing. This country is a joke.
— Edosa Sunday (@edosaaighobahi) April 5, 2019
Very erratic power supply in sokoto, in many areas the power supply is less than 4 hours of light, in every 24 hours
— Sokoto Caliphate 🇳🇬 (@sanusialtine) April 5, 2019
Polo club road ikoyi like 2hours every day and the billing is unbearable
— @supremo (@FranklinOkoh) April 5, 2019
Hi. Here @ Igbo road, by Police station junction, New Karu, Nasarawa. As a young entrepreneur, operating a standard Barbing Salon. We run on Gen for 2days on stretch at times befor they'll give us low current of 3hr or less. I currently have 2 Peers of 2.5Kva Gen. Help us Please.
— John Okunyomih (@jon_steady) April 5, 2019
It’s hard to measure because days pass without power supply here in Malete, Kwara State.I can only measure in https://t.co/3tLNXF3wcZ a week,we don’t usually have more than 12 hours
— Toyeeb (@AQToyyib) April 5, 2019
THOSE WHO ENJOY POWER SUPPLY
I was in nnewi anambra state the have power up to 18 hours or more in a day
— Mr. POLITICS (@blise29) April 5, 2019
I was in nnewi anambra state the have power up to 18 hours or more in a day
— Mr. POLITICS (@blise29) April 5, 2019
I enjoy minimum of 22 hours of light everyday in my area near Turkish university Abuja
— Augustina F. Ogiator (@akperomo) April 5, 2019
24hrs Here in Yobe. Change has really seen. Next level oh
— Ishiyaku Mamman (@MammanIshiyaku) April 5, 2019
I am from Edo State, Benin City. My village in ovia, we have 24 hours power supply but in egor Benin City, we don't see 2 hours
— Aigbovbiosa Moses Osarenakhue (@AOsarenakhue) April 5, 2019
We have an average of 20 hours a day in my area in abuja
— nasir niyi abdulaziz (@nash1_pixels) April 5, 2019
We have light for about 7hours daily though at night. The power sector seriously needs improvement #LetThereBeLight @tundefashola @toluogunlesi
— Ajibayo Adebayo (@Jibayo) April 7, 2019
In owerri they share it, two days on, one the off and is up to 20 hours… I witnessed it live
— mike blise (@blise29) April 5, 2019
Up to 20hours a day on average, but its 6 days a week. Akai EFA,Calabar,Cross River State.
— Ecca Brown (@BrownEcca) April 12, 2019
18hrs daily #alagboole Akute Ogun state
— #truthalone (@akinsanya2) April 8, 2019
Parts of Port Harcourt enjoy varying supply time of between about 15 to 23 hours. New GRA is about 15 hours, Woji is about 22 hours, ogbunabali about 20 hours, some say they don't receive upto 4 hours (wonder which part of PH).
But Oru West LGA in Imo state, no light for 4 years— Maj. General Lasbury Dabibi (@lasbury123) April 11, 2019
Facebook reactions.
Total and complete power outage in agric ikorodu lagos state for almost one month now and nobody is even addressing the matter.Minister of power should come to our aid. You can imagine what the situation will look like in this hot weather.