The land of darkness. About the people and their hope to get light

1. Epilepsy Of Electricity In
Nigeria
- Anila Kurian

2. A country without electricity
• Every country in this world is known for their never ending
problems like pollution, water scarcity, lack of medical help
etc.
• Nigeria is known for the lack of electricity for over 30 years.
• Despite trying to find ways to solve this issue, nothing till
date has been effective.

3. Back to stone age, is it?
• The Nigerians have no choice but pay the electricity bill every
month even if they survived with candles throughout the
month.
• With the minimum income that they make, they spend most
of that on the so called electricity that they don’t even
receive.
• The government does not show any leniency when it comes
to bills.
• The President of Nigeria tried his best to find sponsors and
supporters in order to privatize the electricity area wise, but
that of course turned out to be a failure too.

4. Cost matters
• The epilepsy of electricity in Nigeria is also causing the small
companies to shut down.
• In order to run the industry, they have to use generators
which are very expensive and many find it extremely difficult
to afford it.
• And that being the case, many companies find it exceedingly
challenging to function and have no other choice, but close
down.
• According to the recent reports, the Power Holding Company
of Nigeria has promised to recover the cost of producing and
issuing electricity for local and industrial consumption.
• This, of course, has to be at the cost of increasing tariff.

5. Too many issues to be solved
• The country which is flowing with fuel is unable to provide
electricity to their citizen sounds like an insane plan.
• It’s turning into a situation where Nigeria is willing to help out
the other countries but leave their own country to suffer.
• The students complain that they have poor eyesight studying
under the low light.
• Hospitals aren’t able to give their best because of the lack of
electricity. Silly problems are turning into major ones just
because of electricity.

6. Solutions, that may!
• Some of the solutions that they have found to solve this issue
include using deposits of coals.
• A number of companies are working use generate electricity
through coal, but they haven’t been that much of a success.
• Apart from that, they are also working on privatizing the
sectors which would provide them electricity area-wise.
• They have been kind of successful but issues like high cost,
this also seems to be not working so well for the Nigerians.

7. Time to act
• It’s high time that the Nigerian President, Goodluck
Jonathan, keeps up his word in fixing the electricity problem
as the citizens are growing out of patience.
• They sternly protest saying, “We don’t want any excuses; we
want solutions. Time is running out, and now is the time to
act.”

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