According to the latest NOIPolls survey, the average daily cumulative power supply received by consumers in the second quarter of 2015 stood at 4.9 hours.
The research shows that from April, 2013 till June, 2015 the average cumulative power supply received by Nigerian households was below 6 hours per day.
The organization’s experts say that individuals were relying and spending more on alternative sources of power to ensure efficiency in the running of their homes and businesses.
The report discloses: “An average of 17% of Nigerian households did not receive any electricity from the Discos, and this proportion of Nigerians witnessed an all-time high of 21 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2014, quickly followed by the third quarter of 2014, with 20 per cent.”
NOIPollst also says hat the highest average daily cumulative power supply Nigerian households received within the same period in view was 8.2 hours per day.
“In addition, a comparison of Q2 2013, Q2 2014 and Q2 2015 shows a visible regressive trend as daily cumulative hours of power supply dropped from 6.4 to 5.7 and to 3.9 respectively, despite the billions of naira invested in resuscitating the sector. The number of respondents who received 19 to 24 hours of light had remained almost the same, going from five per cent in Q2 2013 to eight per cent in Q3 2014 and back to five per cent in Q2 2015,” the report notes.
However, even in the face of the ongoing reforms in the power sector, experts add, Nigerians were still suffering major blackouts all over the nation as daily cumulative direct power supply kept dropping.
The report explains that the average cumulative hours of power supply to Nigerians amounted to 4.9 hours in Q2 2015 and this figure represents the lowest quarterly average cumulative hours of power supply received by Nigerians.
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