Subsidy Savings: Governors and Nigeria’s Power Problems (3)

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Trends and Threads

This week, this page continues the series on how Nigeria’s 36 states have been implementing the 2023 electricity law. This spotlight comes against the backdrop of questions arising from fiscal gains from petrol subsidy removal savings since the beginning of President Bola Tinubu’s administration in 2023.

This series is an effort to gauge the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 7 at the subnational level, especially against the liberalization of the electricity sector.

Nigeria’s legal regime from 2023 is that the control of power generation, transmission, and distribution is now a shared responsibility between the federal government and the states. This page believes that Judicious use of public resources can help solve Nigeria’s power problems and unlock productivity for industries, small and medium-scale businesses, households, and individuals who require regular, affordable, and cleaner supply of electricity to power production.

This series uses key metrics including legal framework, regulatory readiness, and evidence of project pipelines to measure performance in the power sector. States that have been profiled are Abia, Ekiti, Kaduna, Taraba, Bayelsa, and Kogi. Others are Zamfara, Oyo, Cross River, Benue, Ebonyi, and Yobe. This edition features Ogun, Niger, Enugu, Gombe, Delta, and Kano States. Have these states applied public resources to move the needle on power in the last three years? The graphical illustrations provide summary answers.

This light-touch assessment precedes a more detailed reporting and documentation of power access, affordability, and clean energy in the states by SOStainability’s SDG7 industry report and success stories.