Report on Project and Project Management in Nigeria

Introduction

The electricity industry remains inevitably a subject that makes the headlines all the time in the country. This is because in spite of the efforts by past and present governments to improve on the national power supply, the situation appears to worsen instead of improving. It is the normal practice to blame the government for all our failures, the truth is that even some of us, Nigerians, who are in the power and electricity industry cannot claim to be honest and clean in the discharge of our duties. Indeed, some of our national leaders have shown their determination to improve the power supply. This cannot be said of some executives and staff in the power industry who seem to relish the status quo as it appears that they make financial gains from the perpetuation of the unreliable and drastically poor electricity power supply. Some events to substantiate these allegations are contained in this report. One of the featured projects is on the mineral industry. Efforts to diversify the sources of national revenue and reduce the overly dependence on oil are welcome developments. The project is one of such efforts.

This regional report is started on a positive note; it is an interesting development officially and publicly announced this month in the country's electricity supply. It is the progress made in the supply of electric power to Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta area. Other project management developments and problems touched on are currently the topical issues in the nation. Briefly, topics discussed in this report include the following:

• Bayelsa attains 17 hours of steady power daily.

• President Goodluck Jonathan endorses private sector involvement in the electricity industry as he flags off a private sector gas project for the electricity industry.

• Nigeria Agip and Energy Natural Re-sources (NAER) and Allied Energy Plc embark on a project to invest an additional $1billion (about N150 billion) in the power sector

• Electricity industry workers attempt to frustrate members of the Presidential Task Force on Power.

• Speaker of the House of Representative suggests reasons for the persistent poor performance of the power industry.

• FG launches national geochemical mapping project to boost mineral exploration

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