The Federal Government of Nigeria has attributed the drop in electricity supply across the country to the destruction of gas pipelines and the current strike by Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers Union, NUPENG and Petroleum and Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Power, Mr Godknows Igali, told journalists at the Presidential Villa that the effect of the strike is that power supply, which was picking up at the beginning of the week after the repairs of some vandalised gas pipelines, has fallen to an unprecedented low of 1,327 as at 1PM on Friday.
Mr Igali said he hoped that the ongoing negotiation between the government and the striking oil workers would end soon so that the oil workers will help restore the supply of gas to power plants.
