Federal Government says it would accelerate work on four hydropower plants in order to boost energy supply in the country.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated that government would increase work on Gurara hydropower plant phase one and phase two, Zungeru, Dadin Kowa and Mambilla power plants to solve Nigeria’s energy problem.

Fashola said continuous vandalism of gas pipelines and infrastructures across the country had forced government to divert to other alternative sources of energy.

The minister, who spoke at the launch of Building Energy Efficiency Guideline (BEEG) for Nigeria, assured that embarking on alternative sources of energy by government would make it impossible for anybody to hold Nigeria to ransom in future by controlling any particular source of fuel for electricity.