{"id":10417,"date":"2024-01-05T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/discos-need-n2trn-capital-investment-to-improve-power-supply-in-nigeria-fg\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:02:50","slug":"discos-need-n2trn-capital-investment-to-improve-power-supply-in-nigeria-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/discos-need-n2trn-capital-investment-to-improve-power-supply-in-nigeria-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"DisCos need N2trn capital investment to improve power supply in Nigeria \u2013 FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Government says electricity distribution companies in Nigeria will need an estimated N2 trillion or about $2.5 billion in capital to improve power supply to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Olu Verheijen, an adviser to President Bola Tinubu on energy, disclosed this during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>The government also stated that new investors need to revive the industry that can barely supply power to nearly 200 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The companies are over-leveraged and under-capitalized, which has limited their capacity to invest in distributing electricity to households.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to set policies that facilitate reorganization and recapitalization and bring in new partners with new capital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu, in his New Year broadcast, had pledged to improve the electricity supply in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu has expressed readiness to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s electricity turnaround agenda for Nigeria this New Year and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>DisCos need N2trn capital investment to improve power supply in Nigeria \u2013 FG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says electricity distribution companies in Nigeria will need an estimated N2 trillion or about $2.5 billion in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4161,2393,15,466],"tags":[519,2394,180,26],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-discos","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-business","tag-discos","tag-news","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}