Nigeria's Electricity Privatization: Power Minister Hands Over PHCN To Private Investors

Across Nigeria on Friday, the FG completed the final "burial rites" for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, handing over to private investors some of the companies unbundled from the company, derided by Nigerians for its inefficiency in not being able to supply electricity to them. Now that it has been "buried" lol, I hope there would be significant changes. The investors who have become beneficiaries of the nation's privatisation drive include Seoul-based Korea Electric Power Corporation as well as local investors. "The PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) has essentially ceased to exist," Power Minister Chinedu Nebo stated at a brief ceremony while handing over the Abuja (power) Distribution Company to its new owner, Kann Consortium Utility Company Limited. The company was represented by its chairman, Alhaji Shehu Salami, a prince of the Sokoto caliphate. .

Photo from handing over in Ibadan, Oyo state. "We now have distribution, generation and transmission companies. So, it is no longer PHCN," Nebo stated. West Power and Gas Limited took over the biggest of the distribution companies, Eko Distribution Company at a ceremony im Marina, Lagos. The handing over was done by Minister of Industry and Commerce, Olusegun Aganga. He represented the Vice President Namadi Sambo, who chairs the National Privatisation Council.