In a bid to stop incessant national grid collapse, the Federal Government has concluded plans to construct what it called a super grid.
The media aide to the Minister of Power, Bolaji Tunji, disclosed this in a statement he made available to our correspondent on Tuesday.
According to him, the power minister, Adebayo Adelabu, spoke in China where he attended the China-Africa Cooperation Summit.
Adelabu had condemned the national grid, saying its present state cannot support the vision for the power sector.
“If we look at the strength, the capacity and the age of our existing network on the national grid, it cannot really support our vision for the power sector hence the need for the construction of the Western and Eastern super grid.
“Though we have been on this since my resumption, I can also tell you that the President is in full support of this because this will improve our transmission network, stabilise the grid and also…