Politically speaking, every society is built upon a substructure and superstructure relationship. While the superstructure reflects the type of policy, ideology, religious belief, prevailing legal system, the substructure refers to the social relations, working conditions, economic base and productive force in existence in every society. The substructure also refers to the relations with property and the division of labor adopted to provide the essentials of life. Naturally, every society strives to attain economic greatness and prosperity, which ought to translate into better quality of life for the citizenry.

Since energy is defined as the ability to do work, there is definitely a linkage and nexus between the subject-matter of electricity and substructure-superstructure as it is the nucleus, pivot, and catalyst required to drive any economy hence energy self-sufficiency is a dream every forward-looking nation must pursue. The history of economic growth and development of nations is interwoven with improvement of energy sources from coal to steam engines and now fossil fuel as well as the ongoing transition to green and renewable energy sources. To this end, policymakers must develop the political will to formulate policies and regulations that are geared towards the attainment of energy sufficiency if their economies must grow and develop for the betterment of their population.

This blog is therefore created to use tools of political analysis to bring up issues affecting the power sector to the front burner and draw attention of policy makers and formulators to these issues with a view to taking decisions that are favorable and positive to the sector in Nigeria in order to bridge the huge energy gap currently in existence as it is appalling for a nation of about 200million people to have a paltry installed generation capacity of 13,500MW when nations like Brazil with similar demographic characteristics has installed generation capacity of close to 200,000MW. It will cover the power sector value chain from generation to transmission and distribution in Nigeria and use tools of political analysis to carry out such discourses. It should be noted that this approach is without prejudice to existing literatures on the subject matter of energy but is aimed at introducing a fresh and new vista and carving a niche in discussions affecting the power sector.