LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR COMMISSIONS LANDMARK N3.2 BILLION POWER PROJECT

The Lagos state government has inaugurated an independent power plant (IPP) for its secretariat at Alausa in Ikeja. The ten-point-six megawatts IPP which was built at a cost of N3.2 billion will run primarily on natural gas and is expected to provide uninterrupted electricity supply to government establishments and key infrastructure in the environs. Reiterating that the solution to infrastructural, economic and employment challenges in the country is the patronage of made in Nigeria goods, Governor Babatunde Fashola pointed out that the project was a fully indigenous one made possible by public-private partnership. The Governor also used the occasion to harp on the need for energy conservation, explaining that residents of some housing estate in Lagos spend as much as eight to twelve billion naira daily on diesel to fuel generators. Buttressing this, the Managing Director of the Lagos state Electricity Board, Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi said some streets on Lagos Island, public schools and residential homes are also running on solar energy and advised Lagosians to switch to emerging saving bulbs.