Nigerians to face persistent blackout as gas suppliers vow to halt supply over N3.3tn debt

Nigerians are to look a worsening epileptic powerfulness proviso arsenic energy procreation companies said state suppliers person threatened to halt proviso implicit a N3.3 trillion debt.

Dr. Joy Ogaji, the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Power Generation Companies, disclosed this during an interrogation connected Fresh FM.

Ogaji attributed the powerfulness outage Nigerians are grappling with for months to the indebtedness owed state suppliers.

According to her, the country, which presently depends connected proviso from thermal plants powered by state that negociate to make lone 3,334 megawatts of energy to the nationalist grid arsenic of Wednesday, is suffering state shortages.

Speaking connected the accumulated debts the Federal Government beryllium the Gencos, Ogaji said it had grown to N6.8 trillion arsenic of the extremity of February 2026.

“Gas is not disposable due to the fact that the state suppliers person told america that if we request gas, we request to enactment wealth connected the crushed to get state successful the pipe. We beryllium them a batch of money.

“From 2015 to December 2024, the indebtedness illustration grew to N4 trillion. In each period of 2025, determination is simply a shortfall of N200 cardinal truthful if you cipher N200 cardinal times 12, that is N2.4 tri...