Press Pool and Staff of FMPWH getting ready for the 3rd year press briefing of HM Babatunde Raji Fashola as Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing. Follow #StateOfPlay for Updates
#StateOfPlay begins. HM Babatunde Raji Fashola is seated with Permanent secretaries of Power and Works and is now addressing members of the media 
November 10th 2018 makes exactly three years since I was appointed as Minister of Power, Works and Housing by H.E President @MBuhari to run the newly merged Ministry - HM Babatunde Raji Fashola #StateOfPlay
We have walked our talk and recorded tremendous success - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Although there are still people we have not reached but it is indisputable that we have delivered on Incremental Power Supply - HM Babatunde Fashola. #StateOfPlay
Surveys conducted by @nigerianstat show improved power supply and less money spent on fueling generators - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
A Nigerian sent me a text recently. He said he spent 5 hours from lagos to warri by road and this wasn't the case under previous administrations where the same journey took a whole day to complete - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
The ministry has projects ongoing in every single state of the federation and the FCT - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
The Honourable Minister is now taking questions from members of the press after reading his stewardship report #StateOfPlay
On Tarrif Review: the Honourable Minister is not the one that sets Tarrif. @NERCNG does that and I don't tell them what to do although we share knowledge - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
We are working with the Chinese to build the Mambilla Hydropower Project and model it after the Three Gorges Dam in China - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Data:
Total Km of Roads Constructed in 2017- 488km
Total Km of Roads Rehabilitated in 2017- 256km
Number of Personnel - 31,227
Total Km of Roads Constructed as at Nov 2018: 497km
Total Km of Roads Rehabilitated as at Nov 2018- 224km
Number of Personnel - 30,402 #StateOfPlay
Total Km of Roads Constructed in 2017- 488km
Total Km of Roads Rehabilitated in 2017- 256km
Number of Personnel - 31,227
Total Km of Roads Constructed as at Nov 2018: 497km
Total Km of Roads Rehabilitated as at Nov 2018- 224km
Number of Personnel - 30,402 #StateOfPlay
FMPWH's 6-year plan for the construction of Mambilla Hydropower Dam will require about 31,240,000 bags of cement, 42,000 metric tons of steel, 18,981,000 metric tons of granite, stones, sand - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
There are 365 roads presently under construction and some awarded as far back as 2001, and 121 awarded by President @MBuhari led administration - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
With regard to power, we have improved on what we met, by increasing generation from 4000 MW to 7000 MW, transmission from 5000 MW to 7000 MW and distribution from 2690 MW to 5,222 MW - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Generation from Kaduna: 215MW, Afam IV: 240MW, Kashimbilla 40MW, Gurara 30MW, Dadinkowa 29MW, power for 9 universities, 15 markets and 2 big Hydro power plants of 700MW in Zungeru and 3,050MW in Mambilla - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
We have done over 90 transmission projects nationwide with Apo, Mayo Belwa, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Odogunyan and Ejigbo being recently completed ones - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Although there are still people we have not reached, although there are still disruptions from time to time, it is indisputable that we have delivered on incremental power - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
The evidence of our progress is not only captured in the last quarter of the @nigerianstat Report for Q2 of 2018 which shows a growth of 7.5% - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
in the electricity sector, previous quarterly reports from 2017, have consistently recorded growth, a clear departure from 2014-2015 and proof of change - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
The report of our survey confirms that many of you now have public power for longer hours compared to 2015, and you now run generators for shorter periods compared to 2015 and you now spend less money on diesel to power your generators - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
As some Citizens recently reported, they no longer have to iron all their clothes one week in advance as they previously used to do, because the supply is proving reliable and predictable even if not yet fully Stable and uninterrupted - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
This is progress that we must move forward by consolidating on our mandate of change. We cannot go back - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
As our policies on Mini Grids, Meter Asset Provider, Eligible Customer, and liquidity sustenance and improved governance deepens, your experience with power supply can only get better - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Our progress report on public works relating to roads and bridges also confirms that we have fulfilled our promise.
We have recovered the thousands of jobs that were lost to public works - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
We have recovered the thousands of jobs that were lost to public works - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
This recovery is the result of an expansive infrastructure spending that saw works budget grow from N18.132b in 2015 to N394b in 2018 - HM Babatunde Fashola
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The outcome is that there is not one state in Nigeria today where the Federal Government is not executing at least one road project and construction workers are engaged on these sites - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Difficult or abandoned projects like the 2nd Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Bodo-Bonny Bridge have been brought back to life. Sections of Ilorin-Jebba, Sokoto to Jega, Sokoto-Ilela have been completed - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
While progress of works continues nationwide from Jada to Mayo Belwa, Enugu to Port Harcourt, Lagos to Otta, Ikorodu to Shagamu, Benin to Okene, Lokoja to Abuja, Kano to Maiduguri, Abuja – Kaduna, Kano to mention a few - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
Apart from recovered construction jobs and growth in construction sector of the economy, the feedback from road users is that the journey times are reducing on the completed roads - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
A commuter sent a text message to me that he travelled from Warri to Lagos in Five and Half hours.
That journey used to take a whole day before President Buhari was elected and sometimes people slept on the Road - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
That journey used to take a whole day before President Buhari was elected and sometimes people slept on the Road - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
We acknowledge that the work is not finished, but as long as we remain able to finance the projects, I have no doubt that it will get better - HM Babatunde Fashola #StateOfPlay
