The President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu on Tuesday transmitted three additional names of Ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and eventual confirmation.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the names of the the three nominees were given as Jamila Bio, Balarabe Abbas and Olawale Olawande.
This was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, at the plenary on Tuesday.
Abbas Balarabe was nominated as the replacement for the former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai who was expected to head the ministry of power.
The fresh nomination is coming barely three months after the upper chamber of the National Assembly confirmed 45 nominees with various portfolios.
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Africa Today News, New York recalls that the Senate was unable to confirm the former Kaduna governor and two other nominees due to security and other issues.
In another report, the Minister Bayo Adelabu has shared the Federal Government’s strategic plan to achieve a substantial increase in electricity generation, targeting 20,000 megawatts by 2026 and 60,000MW by 2060.
The minister made this revelation during his visit to the National Control Centre of the Transmission Company of Nigeria in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, on Friday.
Adelabu shared the Ministry’s roadmaps for enhancing power generation, transmission, and distribution in Nigeria, spanning both immediate and long-range objectives.
He said, ‘Like I told you, it’s an aspiration for Nigeria to have minimum of 60,000 megawatts of power by 2060; that is 60 gigawatts. And 2030 is the medium-term objective of achieving 30,000 megawatts of power.’
‘But like I mentioned in one of the programmes I attended, in as much as we are on course in achieving this, given the experiences of other countries who are even able to achieve over 100,000 megawatts within 40 to 50 years, this is not an ambitious target for Nigeria, we can easily achieve it.’
‘We have target for transmission capacity, we have target for distribution capacity and we have target for power generation capacity. By 2026, we should be able to achieve 20,000 megawatts of electricity’.
He also noted that, as part of the Federal Government’s presidential power initiative, two more power substations will be constructed within the next few months.