Nigeria, May 6 -- Nigeria's minister-designate for power, Joseph Tegbe, has pledged to tackle the recurring national grid collapse if confirmed and sworn in as substantive minister. Mr Tegbe said he will try to fix the grid collapse in his first 100 days in office.

Mr Tegbe made the pledge on Wednesday while responding to questions from senators during his screening at the Senate chamber.

The minister-designate said the first phase of his 100-day plan would focus on stabilising the national grid before rolling out another phase of metering to reduce estimated billing across the country.

"The first phase in the 100 days is to stabilise that grid. There are questions around grid collapse and then need to roll out metering. Last year we r...