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August 16, 2019
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has reassured Nigerians thatFederal Government is committed to effective and cost reflective power supplyin the country.
Osinbanjo gave the assurance at the official inauguration ofthe Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC new substation and associated onehundred and thirty two   kilovolttransmission lines in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
According to Osinbajo, this commissioning is an importantpart of government effort to improve supply and quality of power to homes andbusinesses in Nigeria. He assured Nigerians that before the end of 2019, newgeneration was expected to be injected into the national grid to boost and increasepower supply in the country.
Osinbajo said the distribution capacity in the eleven DISCOSwere significantly low, hovering at around four thousand megawatts on averagewith a peak at about five thousand four hundred megawatts.
The NDPHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Chiedu Ugbo said he thenew substation when fully on stream, would provide reliable power off-takedistribution feeders to Abeokuta and environs.