The national electricity grid is currently powering nearly 60 per cent of Nigerian households, signalling progress in efforts to expand energy access across the country. This indicates that 6 in 10 Nigerian households, from the surveyed states are connected to the national grid.
This is according to the Nigeria Residential Energy Demand-side Report 2024 by the Nigerian government, which was done by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Power, the Energy Commission of Nigeria, and the European Union.
The report revealed that 79.7 per cent in Ekiti State, and 77.3 per cent in Oyo State are connected to the national grid. “About 1 out of every 5 households in Sokoto are connected to the national grid.”
“Among households connected to the national grid across the nine states covered in this report, 86.6 per cent had electricity supply at one point or the other in the last 30 days on an average of 6.61 hours per day.
“Disaggregation by state shows that Plateau state had the highest electricity supply with 95.7 per cent, closely followed by Sokoto state with 95.1 per cent, and Ekiti state had the lowest with 66.6 per cent.”
Meanwhile, 14.8 per cent of households reported using prepaid billing systems as against 85.2 per cent of those using estimated billing systems during the reference period.
Further analysis by the state on the estimated billing system reveals that Bauchi State recorded the highest with 97.9 per cent, followed by Sokoto State with 97.3 per cent and Plateau State had the lowest with 69.1 per cent.
