Nigeria's electricity woes high on election agenda

945 views · Published 7 February 2015 · 1:59 · Indexed 24 September 2026

Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2015 · News & Politics

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One of the biggest issues facing Nigeria’s new president after this month’s election will be the country's chronic power outages.

Despite billions of dollars having been spent trying to fix the problem, most of Nigeria's 170 million people still do not have access to electricity. 

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from Bwari.

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