Gas Supply

Vice president of the Dangote Group and president of the Gas to Health Initiative (GTHI), Sani Dangote, yesterday, in Abuja flagged off a nationwide pilot scheme that seeks to encourage Nigerians from all walks of life to embrace the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LP Gas).
The Gas to Health Initiative is aimed at protecting the health of Nigerians, as well as the preservation of the environment from deforestation.
Dangote who also launched a new book written by the Secretary of GTHI Mrs Betty Ugona, said the book addresses the key issues of acceptability of LP Gas, focusing on four cardinal elements: Efficiency, benefits, sensitization and the empowerment of core users of LP Gas.
Dangote bought 200 copies of the book titled: “Who Cooks it feels the Brunt.”
“The book strikes on the root causes of low LP Gas usage and offers practical steps to achieving improved usage of LP Gas,” he said.with an overabundance of resources and population of over 165million, Nigeria still ranks amongst the lowest in LP Gas consumption in ECOWAS member countries, with a per capita consumption of about 1.8kg, railing countries like Senegal at 8.46kg, Cote D’Ivoire at 9.3kg and Ghana at 10kg per capital.
 Dangote regretted that despite being rated as the leading producer of LP Gas in Africa with annual production of about 3.2 Million MT and 12th in Global ranking, the country still ranks abysmally low in terms of consumption of LP Gas and its application to other relevant domestic, industrial and social purposes.
According to him, about 56 per cent of energy needed for cooking within Nigeria is supplied by fuel wood (firewood) particularly in the rural areas, adding that the cumulative effect of this trend is the negative impact on citizen health, the environment, and economy as a whole.

Power Failure.

Former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, yesterday attributed poor power supply across the country to poor enforcement of discipline by regulatory agencies.
Nnaji, who oversaw the deregulation of the nation’s power sector and the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, told the Senate ad-hoc Committee on Power when he appeared before it yesterday that about half of the power being generated by the various generating companies does not get to the consumers as a result of poor transmission.
He noted that only 5, 500 out of the 12, 000 megawatts installed capacity was getting to the consumers and that the gas being delivered for power generation was a fraction of the installed capacity which would not affect the quantity meant for export through the Liquefied Natural Gas.