The Federal Government has announced plans to generate and distribute at least 8,000 megawatts of electricity by the end of President Bola Tinubu’s first term in office in 2027.
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, revealed this during the sixth edition of the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing Series in Abuja.
Adelabu said the target is realistic, noting that the power sector has already recorded a 40 per cent improvement in generation since the current administration assumed office.
According to him, the average daily power generated and distributed in the last quarter of 2025 was 5,700 MegaWatt up from 4,100 MegaWatt in the third quarter of 2023.
This, he said indicates a growth of 1,600 megawatts, nearly 40 per cent, since they assumed office at the ministry. He traced the history of Nigeria’s power generation, noting that it took the country nearly 40 years from 1984 to around 2022 to grow from 2,000MagaWatt to 4,000MegaWatt.