If the findings of NOI Polls are anything to go by, most Nigerians are ready to pay more for regular power supply.

According to “Nigerian Power Sector Poll,” a survey conducted in three waves, between June and September 2010 by NOI Polls, the country’s leading opinion polling organisation in partnership with the Nigerian Infrastructure Advisory Facility, NIAF, 96 per cent of Nigerians are willing to pay more for electricity if they can get the preferred level of power supply they desire. Also 75 per cent of Nigerians consider availability of power to be the most important priority in power supply, irrespective of who the supplier is.

The special survey was designed to track and assess the opinions, attitudes and preferences of Nigerians on the current state of electricity supply in the country against the background of the ongoing efforts of the Federal Government to implement far reaching reforms.

The findings make it clear that the nation’s poor track record in this critical area continues to attract deep public concern over the inadequacy of supply which has persisted in spite of the well advertised efforts of successive governments to improve the poor level of generation and distribution.