Nigeria’s power crisis: Businesses, households bleeding

•Grid collapses to 2,033.66MW, infrastructure in tatters •Nigerians blast minister, say ‘your claim of steady power supply at variance with realities’

Nigeria’s worsening power crisis has exposed the widening gap between government claims of improvement and the reality confronting households and businesses, as electricity generation plunged to about 2,033.66MW on Monday, with 16 of the country’s 33 generating plants recording zero output.
The latest drop came barely weeks after available generation was reported at 5,403.3MW, highlighting the gulf between installed generation capacity, actual plant availability and electricity ultimately delivered to consumers.
Among the plants th...