Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to provide 20 hours of daily electricity to residents.
Gatekeepers News reports that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has unveiled plans to deliver 50 megawatts of electricity for 20 hours daily to residents through the new Lagos State Electricity Policy.
Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this in a statement made available by the Director of Public Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Cooperatives (MCIC), Kayode Oyekanmi on Saturday.
Sanwo-Olu stated that the framework is a sub-national electricity sector entirely off the national grid to cater solely to the needs of the state’s households.
The Governor charged the state’s residents to “maximise the opportunities at our disposal,” while adding that “the society expects more from you in terms of innovation and creativity that will put an end to the challenges of industrialisation in Africa.”
Sanwo-Olu added that “It is time to think outside the box. You can, for instance, begin to think of developing machines that refine raw materials in small qualities to start with but run solely on solar or other forms of clean energy.
“It is not the time to think of things we don’t have. Rather, it is time to maximise the opportunities at our disposal.
“I want you to know that we, the society, expect more from you in terms of innovation and creativity that will put an end to the challenges of industrialisation in Africa.”
