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November 8, 2019
The Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman has assured of FederalGovernment’s plan to increase electricity generation in Afam Power Station inRivers State.
Mamman who made this known in Port Harcourt, said the planis aimed at increasing electricity target, and channel it to the national gridfor onward distribution to all the 36 states of the federation and beyond.
According to the Minister, the tour of the power station is toascertain its present status and strengthen the efforts towards an increasedelectricity target.
He  also announced that the prospects in the power station were huge,saying it played host to six power stations of various turbine capacities.
Mamman said that presently, not all the turbines in thestations were working, adding that only about four of the six stations werecurrently functional. On metering and electricity billing, the minister saidthat the Federal Government had no business in direct power distribution.