Jonathan Promises Regular Power By Mid-year‏

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The Nigerian President, Goodluck
Jonathan, says power will be
reasonably stable across the
country before the middle of 2014.
The promise comes months after the
conclusion of the first phase of the
privatisation process of the power
sector.
On November 1 2013, new owners
took over the unbundled Power
Holding Company of Nigeria, a process
that has been described as the most
transparent in West Africa.
President Jonathan told a congregation
of Christian Faithful in a New Year
Service in Abuja on Wednesday that
his administration would do its best to
ensure a vibrant economy, create
more jobs, uphold good governance
and provide food for Nigerians.
The year 2014 is a special year in
Nigeria’s history, as it marks modern
Nigeria’s 100 years of existence.
“All Nigerians should endeavour to
know the areas they will participate as
we celebrate the nation’s centenary,”
Jonathan said.
He pleaded with politicians to place
priority on the interest of the country
more than their individual interests.
“As we continue to play politics in that
direction. Leaders will come and go
but the country will stay,” he said.
The president said that the expected
stable power supply before the middle
of the year would stimulate the
economy.
In a New Year message, President
Jonathan had urged all Nigerians to
place the higher interests of national
unity, peace, stability and progress
above all other considerations and
work harder in their particular fields of
human endeavour to contribute more
significantly to the attainment of the
country’s collective aspirations.
At the service, the Senate President,
Senator David Mark, called on
Nigerians to make concerted efforts to
end the security challenges facing the
nation.
“It is not the fact that we have security
challenges that is the issue. It is what
we are doing to bring this to an early
and logical conclusion,” he said.
Clergymen in different churches across
the nation have stressed the need for
the leaders to strive to touch the lives
of the citizens in order to bring the
needed change in Nigeria.