Review of Lagos State Electricity Bill, 2024
Technical Report
Electric energy is essential to the development of a nation. It is crucial to providing basic needs such as cooked food, a comfortable living temperature, lighting, the use of appliances, essential healthcare, communication, and transport. It also fuels productive activities, including agriculture, commerce, industry, and mining. In Nigeria, the federal government embarked on a liberalisation process because of the decades of the failure of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) monopoly. The first attempt aimed at reforming the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) was in 1998 when the monopoly of NEPA was broken under the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) (Amendment) Decree and the Electric Amendment Decree No. 28 of 1998 (now repealed). The aim was to allow private sector participation in the industry through a liberalisation system.