58% of Households in Nigeria Have Access to the National Grid, Reports NBS.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 58% of Nigerian residences are wired into the national grid.
The bureau’s “Nigeria Residential Energy Demand Side Survey (NREDSS) 2024,” which was released in Abuja, included this finding.
Nine states representing the nation’s six geopolitical zones—Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ekiti, Oyo, Enugu, Kwara, Plateau, Kano, and Sokoto—were used for the study.
For the poll, 8,100 households in both urban and rural areas were interviewed.86.6 percent of grid-connected households have access to electricity, according to the NBS.
Of those, 14.8 percent were on a pre-paid billing system, while 85.2% used the estimated billing method.
An estimated N4,155.8 was spent on electricity on a monthly average.Eight times in 2024, Nigeria’s national grid has failed, with the first one occurring on February 4.
There were three further failures in October, on the 14th, 15th, and 19th, as well as on March 28, April 15, July 6, and August 5.
The electricity minister, Adebayo Adelabu, clarified that old infrastructure is the cause of recurrent grid collapses and that further investment in power infrastructure is required to stop such occurrences in the future.
On October 24, a public hearing of the grid failures is planned by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
A forensic investigating commission has also been formed by the federal government to look into the matter.
According to the poll, 39 percent of Nigerian families collect their own fuelwood, while 41 percent buy it, meaning that 67.8 percent of households in the country utilise it for domestic and other reasons.
While 19.4% of households use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), with an average monthly cost of N10,239.7, one in five houses (22 percent) use charcoal.
In order to lessen environmental problems including garbage disposal, climate change, and contamination of the air and water, the NBS recommended that the government encourage the planting of new trees and the use of clean energy sources like solar, wind, and LPG.
In order to save costs and maximise electricity generation by decentralising the national system through mini-grids, the bureau also suggested supporting the construction of additional LPG stations and local gas cylinder production.
