4,000 megawatts can’t meet electricity needs of over 200m Nigerians

4,000 megawatts generated in Nigeria daily cannot meet the electricity needs of Nigerians.

Head of Corporate Communications, EEDC, Mr Emeka Eze, said this while reacting to an allegation that it was deliberately providing poor services to the customers in the zone.

Speaking with The PUNCH on Tuesday, Eze said that the country generates 4,000 megawatts of electricity daily, adding that it was not enough to solve the electricity needs of Nigeria, which he said, was over 200 million people.

While maintaining that the crisis rocking the nation’s power sector was fundamental, Eze said the challenges currently confronting the sector, could not be solved overnight.

INADEQUATE USE OF TECHNOLOGY

One of the problems Nigeria is facing is lack or inadequate use of technology. Nigeria as a country should be in a position to enjoy good facilities of modern technology but reverse is the case. In a country boast of population approximately 200 millions, could not afford a well meaning of modern technology. Let's take for instance:
Firstly, the use of computer. In our various stages of knowledge (primary school, junior and senior secondary and university) lack use of computer. The only place that we can find computer (if working) maybe the vice chancellor's offices, the principal's offices and accountant's offices.
In facts, many students have to enroll themselves in computer school after they had finished their school certificate. The places where computers are being used are international airport, banks, immigration offices and individual's offices.
Secondly, communication means. lack of land phones in Nigeria to communicate and for the use of WI FI is a major problems.
The Federal Government has decried it inability to have direct and secure communication channels with the Nigerian embassies and high commission.said the foreign affairs minister.
Nigeria federal offices don't have a basic communication channels to communicate among each other.