Power Generation Crashes By Alarming 630MW as Fire Outbreak Forces Lagos Egbin Plant to Suspend Operation Peter Uzoho Nigeria's daily power generation has fallen by an alarming 630 megawatts (MW) since Wednesday following a fire outbreak at Egbin Power
Plant in Ikorodu, Lagos State and the resultant shut down of generation by the company. This development, coupled with the load reduction mechanism adopted by the Transmission Company of
Nigeria (TCN) to prevent system collapse, has worsened the power supply situation in Lagos State. Electricity consumers in the state and its environs have been witnessing constant power outages for several weeks.
Egbin Power had, in a statement issued to its stakeholders and the general public yesterday, reported the fire incident at its power plant on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, at about 4.20pm, leading to
blackout in Lagos State. The thermal plant has an installed capacity of 1,320MW consisting of six turbines of 220MW each, while its actual average generating capacity is about 800MW.
Egbin said the fire outbreak was successfully contained by a team of its firefighters in collaboration with firefighters from the Nigeria Gas Company Continued on page 5
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Osinbajo: Shonekan Was a Man of Destiny Chosen for His Time Gowon, Jonathan, Boss Mustapha also present as former Head of ING is buried in Lagos Our Correspondents Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday described the former
Head of Interim Government (ING) the late Ernest Shonekan as a man of destiny who was chosen for his time.
Speaking at the State funeral service, organised in honour of the departed national leader, held at the Cathedral Church of
Christ, Marina, Lagos, Osinbajo said Shonekan proved by his life “that destiny for one or for a nation is the manifest result of
small choices made every day by ordinary people doing the best they can and persevering in goodness.”
The Vice President said Shonekan lived an extraordinary Continued on page 5
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