Solar Energy: Corona to the rescue

The Nigerian nation is seen in different light by many people. While a lot of people believe it is a unique country highly enriched by nature in all facets of natural resources, others believe that the nation is a never do well, whose natural endowment has become its nemesis. It still beats the imagination, how a country so blessed by God in human and natural resources detaches itself from global realities and rather continues to toe the line of self destruction. Here in Nigeria, nothing seems to work. From education to health, politics and economy; and from science and technology to the mere provision of basic social amenities, Nigerians groan everyday and agonize over things that are taken for granted in other climes.

One sore area in which the nation seems to have lost it all is electricity. No economy can survive without energy which powers all forms of modern human activities. Over the years, successive governments in Nigeria have voted billions of naira to generate power all to no avail. After pumping in so much money to save the then National Electricity Power Authority (NEPA) without result, President Obasanjo told a bewildered nation that power generation in Nigeria has been hit by witchcraft.

For more info see: http://www.vanguardngr.com/content/view/34585/51/