The 5 Leadership Lessons That Fixing Cars Taught Me by Mark Woodward

At 17, I didn’t think much about what I’d do with my life beyond racing my motorcycle and working at a local garage. My job as an auto mechanic, though an extension of my interests, felt disconnected from my idea of “real life,” which I assumed would happen at some later point, in adulthood.

But, fast-forward a number of years, well, a lot of years: Now that my so-called real life has begun, it’s clear that that first job was more than just a way to save up for a new car and stay out of trouble.
In fact, the job not only guided my career path in unexpected ways but taught me what it meant to be a hard worker and an effective leader. I already knew how to fix cars, but being a mechanic taught me how to solve problems. Specifically, I learned how to confront seemingly insurmountable challenges with tenacity and curiosity. I took these skills with me as I went on to become a computer programmer, sales manager and, eventually, a CEO.
Here are the five things I learned about leadership from working as a mechanic:

1. Get your hands dirty.

We often think of leaders as visionaries who delegate the execution of their great ideas to others in the company. In my experience, however, great ideas come from people at every level of the organization.
The best leaders are builders and facilitators: They intentionally create a culture that encourages creativity, big thinking and hard work. A key piece of developing that culture is wholehearted participation in the work. Because your actions and attitude set the tone, your focus and grit matter just as much as your vision. This is true whether you work at a garage or in the corner office.

2. Trust that you’ll find a solution.

As a mechanic, I got used to encountering challenges on a daily basis because every client came to the garage with a problem. Sometimes, they were easy fixes. Often, though, they were complex and vague: “Something is off with the engine,” or, “I hear this awful sound when I accelerate.” It was my charge to resolve these problems with a finite toolbox.
I learned that with a little bit of cleverness, out-of-the-box thinking and, occasionally, brute force (toward the car, not the owner), I’d figure it out. I couldn’t tell you exactly how I’d do it, but I knew I’d find the solution. I’ve since applied the same thinking to complex business deals as I once did to frozen bolts in hard-to-reach parts of a car engine. By continuing to grapple with tough problems, day in and day out, I've developed confidence in my ability to set a goal and then power through until it’s met.

3. Focus.

It’s human nature to panic when things fall apart at a critical moment, but I’ve observed how some people actually get calmer when things go wrong. This is absolutely a skill that can be honed and cultivated. When challenges arise, it’s critical to take a moment, focus on the one or two top things to prioritize and then decide how best to rally your team around that direction.
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, what you choose not to do is just as important as what you choose to do. When faced with a mess of a problem -- whether you’re running a major corporation or fixing a car in an auto shop -- don’t take on too much. Take a deep breath. Focus on the one thing you can do immediately to have the biggest impact. Then, repeat.

4. Be curious about how things work.

Fixing a car -- especially if you’re taking one apart and putting it together again -- requires understanding how every part of the machine fits together. You need to consider the overall problem while solving it piece by piece at a detailed level.
Successful business leaders do the same: They keep the big picture in mind while thinking about how each part of the company -- department, individual, product or campaign -- fits into the larger vision. They consider how these components advance the vision, and empathize with the people who are experts at each one.

5. Balance self-reliance and teamwork.

Leaders figure out where the company needs to go, and build a team that will work together to get there. No matter how talented you are as an individual, it’s impossible to have a meaningful impact all on your own. Aspiring leaders tend to be self-starters, so this lesson can be tough to internalize.

As a mechanic, and indeed throughout much of my life since, I've relied on myself. I took pride in my ability to solve problems independently. Now that I’m a CEO, I’ve realized that leadership involves balancing my individual efforts and the work of the broader team. As with any complex machinery, the whole of a business is far greater than the sum of its parts.

The 5 Leadership Lessons That Fixing Cars Taught Me

Adewale Friday, 8 April 2016

When the Oracle of Omaha talks, people make pilgrimages. In fact, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flock to the tiny town of Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him talk about investing.
Of course, if any business leader can command that level of devotion, it’s Mr. Buffett. He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $67 billion. A single share of his company’s stock? Try $191,396. That's enough to buy a house in any one of the 50 states.

Teach us your ways, Warren!
There are countless books on how Buffett accumulated his wealth (Amazon has almost 20 pages of results under his name). The number of articles about him on sites like The Motley Fool, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider is probably somewhere in the thousands.
But there aren’t that many articles on what he does in his spare time after work.
This isn’t surprising. In our current culture of competitive workaholics who regularly work late hours, Buffett’s office schedule is more valuable to readers than his home hobbies. But his famous Zen attitude towards managing, investing and making billions can be largely attributed to his enviable work-life balance.
Here are 5 things Warren Buffett does each day that we could all learn from:

1. Read 500 pages.

Once, when asked how to get smarter, the Oracle held up a stack of papers and said, “read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge builds up, like compound interest.”
Buffett estimates that he spends 80 percent of his waking day reading at work (financial statements, journals, reports) and at home (newspapers and books). Some of us don’t read that many pages each year.
“I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.” Makes sense; the better read you are, the more informed you are, the less impulsive you are.

2. Exercise a little.

Buffett once said that his secret to staying young is to “eat like a six-year-old.” This includes drinking up to five Cokes a day. “I’m one-quarter Coca-Cola,” he admitted. (Considering he owns $16 billion in Coca-Cola stock, that’s not too far from the truth.) Keep in mind that the 85-year-old also likes to eat hamburgers, steaks, hash browns and root beer floats.
In 2007 (at the age of 77), he revealed that his doctor had given him a simple choice: “Either you eat better or you exercise.” Buffett chose exercise, “the lesser of two evils.” The simple life change must have worked. After beating prostate cancer in 2015, he still looks happy and healthy.

3. Be grateful, not wasteful.

Following in the footsteps of his hero, Chuck Feeney (who secretly gave away his entire fortune), Buffett is one of the world’s biggest philanthropists. His Giving Pledge also boasts dozens of billionaire signees, including Bill Gates, who have committed half their net worth to charitable causes. Buffett has pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune during his lifetime.

“If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”
He is also famously frugal, so it all works out. Not only does Mr. Buffett live in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 (ironically, it costs significantly more to live next to him). He also likes to treat investors who visit him in Omaha to McDonald’s for lunch.

4. Play a game that requires patience.

Like Chuck Feeney, Buffett has admitted that he manages his ever-growing fortune like he’s playing a game. This isn’t surprising. He enjoys games, and regularly plays financial “mind games” to help him better see patterns in his investments.
He also likes to stay sharp by playing Bridge (which, like Monopoly, takes a notoriously long time to finish). In fact, Buffett likes Bridge so much that he can sometimes be found in an Omaha strip mall, paying $7 to play against retirees.

“It’s got to be the best intellectual exercise out there,” he claims. “You’re seeing new situations every ten minutes...Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You’re doing calculations all the time.”

5. Have a hobby that’s just for fun.

For Wall Street analysts who often work 100+ hours a week, something as mundane as a “hobby” is inevitably put on the back burner. But Warren likes his hobbies. If you can believe it, he’s a pretty good ukulele player and even writes his own songs. There are YouTube videos of him singing about Coca Cola and playing duets with Bon Jovi.
In fact, there’s probably no better way to end this post than with a video of Mr. Buffett playing ukulele duet for charity with Jon Bon Jovi.
If one of the world’s richest men can afford to be this silly once in a while, we can, too.

5 Things Warren Buffett Does After Work

Adewale

Committees don’t create successful startups. A single visionary entrepreneur almost always is the initial implementer of an innovative new venture, but that lone entrepreneur doesn’t have the bandwidth to grow the business alone. He or she needs the multiplier of growing from the “doer” to a team-builder and leader. That’s a big transition, and many entrepreneurs never make it.

These entrepreneurs know instinctively what needs to be done, but they may have no idea how to get it done through others. Some will argue that people leadership is a skill you have to be born with, but I’m convinced that it can be learned from experience, mentoring and failures. The ones who learn quickest are the ones who move from good entrepreneurs to good business leaders.

In my experience working with entrepreneurs and business leaders, I have found no magic formula or recipe to get you there, but there are some key leadership principles that anyone can aspire too and learn from, including the following:

1. Become an ardent student of leadership.

Entrepreneurs who become business leaders study the successes of peers and seek to emulate them. They reach to find mentors who have been there, read books on the subject, and participate in leadership development programs. Leadership requires focus and effort and doesn’t happen by title.

2. Set personal leadership goals and solicit feedback.

Business leadership requires spending more time working on the business, and less time working in the business. You can measure these activities yourself and get validation from your team. How much of your time is spent on futures, strategizing and coaching versus fixing daily crises?

3. Tackle new challenges outside your comfort zone.

If you never push your limits and never fail, you never learn new capabilities. As a new entrepreneur, perhaps you have no experience with hiring and delegating, yet these skills are not rocket science. Don’t be afraid to ask for support from more experienced peers and human resources experts.

4. Celebrate small successes and learn from failures.

People who demand perfection from themselves are rarely good leaders. Learn to celebrate small steps in the right direction and failures that are a source of real insight. Be humble and transparent in involving your team and even your customers in your successes and your mistakes.

5. Recognize and reward leadership successes around you.

Working to recognize and celebrate leadership in others will supplement and solidify your own capabilities. The more often you walk in the shoes of leaders around you, the easier and more natural it will be for you to define and capitalize on your own leadership elements.

6. Demand strong performance and deal quickly with mediocrity.

Recognized business leaders are known for their expectation of excellence from their team -- and from themselves. They do not tolerate mediocrity around them, which keeps their teams highly motivated and proud to be associated with the leader as a role model.

7. Work on improving your communication skills.

Effective leadership requires effective communication, including verbal, written and body-language. Your team, customers and partners need to understand your vision, goals and what is expected of them before they decide to follow you. Great leaders also practice active listening and full attention.

8. Go forward with passion and a positive attitude.

No one wants to follow a habitually grumpy or negative entrepreneur. Business people are naturally attracted to passionate, motivated and enthusiastic peers. A side benefit is that you will feel happier and more fulfilled when surrounded by similar positive people. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

To grow from being an entrepreneur to a business leader is a personal challenge and not one that everyone can deal with. The core principles are the same for both -- develop and articulate a vision, act decisively and build personal relationships. The leadership multiplier is required to effectively incent others around you to do the same. How well is that multiplier working for you?

Leadership Is Learned From Experience, Mentoring and Failure

Adewale

The traditional product value chain has been shaken up with the unstoppable spread of globalization and the universal commodification of goods and services. Globalization has forced companies to adjust and respond.

In fact, Internet of Things (IoT) products are playing a pivotal role in the alteration of B2C relationships, delivery channels and product pricing, and their continued proliferation is shaping the very nature of how we look at the product value chain.
The "Internet of things" refers to objects that can communicate among one other through a network. IoT is becoming prolific and commonplace in everyday objects. And, with experts predicting that the IoT network will consist of some 50 billion devices by 2020, those devices will only become more and more ubiquitous. The IoT revolution is truly just beginning, and it will most certainly will be televised!
Here are four changes coming:

1. IoT allows for unprecedented interactions between manufacturers and consumers.

Credit the interconnectedness of IoT products, letting them, in turn, connect the buyer with the seller. By opening new channels for B2C communication, IoT products are providing manufacturers an invaluable opportunity to reshape a dusty and outdated product value chain. Interacting directly with consumers gives us valuable insights on products; and consumer feedback will help us mold future business and product strategies.
Coffee giant Starbucks put this idea to action when it launched My Starbucks Idea. "Idea" is an outreach website where customers can submit ideas on how to improve the overall Starbucks experience. To date, the site has received more than 200,000 suggestions, and the company has implemented several, from energy-saving LED bulbs to convenient lunch wraps.
While this idea is a bit grandiose and presumably difficult to scale, the intent (and resulting customer satisfaction) is certainly worth consideration, and with help from the IoT's proliferation, it can be more effectively implemented.

2. Improved B2C communications won't benefit just manufacturers.

Improving and prioritizing B2C communications is also a critical component to boosting loyalty and repeat business from consumers. According to IBM, 80 percent of consumers surveyed said they felt that brands didn't know them as individuals.
That statistic suggests that considerable opportunity exists to capitalize on increased communication -- and that brands that succeed in this regard will enjoy a considerable advantage over those who don't.

3. IoT products allow for a unique and modern approach to both cross-selling and upselling.

At our IoT product development company, TikTeck, for example, we sell LED smart bulbs for $9.99 apiece. A smart bulb is just one component in the IoT-populated landscape of automated homes, and it's a fantastic first step to drawing in curious consumers interested in IoT products because of their low-cost barrier.
Once those cosumers have tried (and hopefully enjoyed) our bulb, they're much more likely to come back and try our other IoT offerings, and they're much more likely to create a fully functioning and streamlined "smart" environment in their homes. Meanwhile, we can gather data on usage metrics and consumer behavior, to predict what kind of products people may need; and we can offer them directly through the cloud or our IoT apps.
That's a fantastic cross-selling opportunity, and it's considerably simpler, thanks to the new IoT product value chain.
Also, there's more than just cross-selling possible here: There's also plenty of simplified upselling possible with IoT products. We can sell a fully functioning, feature-heavy product for a very affordable amount, but we can also offer premium features that are restricted behind a pay wall or subscription requirement. That way, consumers can try our products at a low upfront cost, and if they like what we're offering, they'll pay more to access more.
This consumer-direct relationship isn't possible without a low-cost barrier and direct communication tools through apps or cloud computing.

4. Upselling and IoT proliferation can lead to a 'free-mium' business model.

Given this promise of recouping capital through alternative revenues, manufacturers will be able to deliver their product directly to consumers at a very low (potentially zero) cost. This "free-mium" model means that value isn't inherently attached only to the product itself, but to the actual, real-world use of the product. Monetization will come in the form of upgrades, subscriptions, product services or native (in-app) advertising. This will allow manufacturers to innovate by focusing on intangible features, products and applications.

Conclusion

Challenges will arise as the product value chain shifts toward the future. Product differentiation will be crucial for manufacturers, and they will need cost-effective and proven development capabilities, with fast turnaround.
Consumers, remember, are impatient: They want instant gratification, and that patience is only going to grow thinner as processing, handling and shipping becomes automated and streamlined. Manufacturers will need a supply chain that can handle both big and small orders. Those who can't handle these things will be replaced by those who can.
Overall, a revamped product value chain will not eliminate the importance of digital and social media marketing. In fact, it will most likely increase it. It's one thing to develop a good product. But getting consumers to take notice is a whole other beast.

The future is exciting, and as connectivity and IoT spreads like wildfire, businesses and manufacturers that wish to succeed on a global scale will need to be at the frontline of the product-value chain.

The 'Internet of Things' Is Changing the Way We Look at the Global Product Value Chain

Adewale

Millionaires are willing to do what 99 percent of people aren’t willing to do.

The 99 percent are idling away their time, money, and emotions while seeking approval from others, while the millionaires work to study and master the game of life. When people around them talk about problems, they find solutions. As people are "settling," they are constantly on the move.

Becoming a millionaire is a process. First, there is a lot of personal development involved. This means that you must have solid life skills for basic survival. Once you have these life skills in place, you must procure the professional skills that align best with your natural abilities.

When you acquire these professional skills, you must refine them by seeking advanced training. After you master your skills, you must find systems that either replace you or help you reach a higher level. Following this order will help you to achieve the success you’ve always wanted:

Personal Development
Gain Professional Skills
Master Skills
Create Systems to Leverage Yourself

If you want to learn about how you can get to the next level, there are certain qualities of self-made millionaires that you’ll need to adopt. Here are 12 Qualities of Self-Made Millionaires:

1. Be confident.

There is no one like you. Your background, genetics, age, and current status can help you to achieve the success that you’ve been searching for. Be different. Be certain of yourself. Be enlightened of your possibilities. You’re already going to be the best at what you do. All you have to do is take what you get to get what you want.

2. Be curious.

A lot of people cheat themselves out of success because they fail to ask the right questions. Instead, they accept the status quo and make erroneous assumptions. Find out why things are the way they are. Learn about the truth and discover what it really takes to be successful. Challenge the norm and never conform.

3. Be excellent.

Becoming a millionaire demands excellence in every area of your life. You must be diligent in all of your affairs. Be a student and master your craft, even if it takes half of the day for the rest of your life. When rising on each level of success, teach others what you learned along the way. It will only lift you higher. Teachers must be students and students must be teachers.

4. Be consistent.

Every day, you must consistently deliver to the best of your abilities. Most people can apply themselves in intervals, but millionaires are constantly producing on higher levels. For me, I’ve been writing at least two articles per week for two straight years. I used to reach dozens per week, now I reach millions per week. I consistently improve my writing. There is unlimited progress in consistency.

5. Be forceful.

People don’t know what they want until you give it to them. Sometimes you have to be forceful with your offerings. Move people to action by creating demand for their needs. Henry Ford was known for saying, “If I asked the people what they wanted, they would have said ‘Faster Horses’” If you keep supplying and proving the need, people will buy what you’re selling.

6. Be fearless.

People will tell you what you can’t do, where you can’t go, and who you can’t be. Forget these people. When I was in college, I failed a class because of my writing ability. Because of this, I dropped out and wrote my book in 10 days. I sold thousands of them and destroyed numerous obstacles along the way. Be fearless and erase all limitations.

7. Be unpredictable.

Most people act so routinely that you can predict their every move. To be more strategic, you must meander your way into different thought patterns, languages, and activities. By consciously creating opportunities for yourself and doing the unthinkable, you’ll be able to exceed your own expectations. Eventually, predictable people will ask you how you did it and you’ll have to give them your unpredictable answers.

8. Be unreasonable.

Unreasonable people change the world. Reasoning too long can often slow you down. It makes you think of the ‘what ifs’ in a negative way. Instead, move with unreasonable action and demand success in every area of your life. Sometimes this means going on 2 hours of sleep to finish reading a book. Do whatever it takes to get to your biggest goal in life, even if it hurts you in the short-term.

9. Be unduplicatable.

No one can copy you if you create a signature style for yourself. Whether you’re wearing bushy bowties or carrying Birkin bags, you need your style to work in your favor. Always say to yourself, “There is no one doing what I’m doing in the way that I’m doing it.” Eventually, your uniqueness will attract the kind of reputation that you’ve been looking for. All millionaires are completely unduplicatable.

10. Be dominant.

Dominating your industry is easy. All you have to do is push a little harder than your competitor. For instance, a famous basketball player told me that most professional basketball players shoot around 500 shots per day. He shoots over 1,000 per day. That’s why he’s a perennial all-star in the NBA. You must mentally accept greatness for yourself and push your mind and body to unprecedented levels.

11. Be controversial.

To become a millionaire, you have to push the limits. You’ve got to ask for things that no one has dared to ask for. Controversy means that you are willing to walk and talk about the subjects that people avoid. Sometimes, you’ll be unpopular for being controversial, but do it anyways. Always push your agenda and help people understand what you’re trying accomplish. If they understand and want to help, bring them on your team.

12. Be universal.

Your theme may not always be accepted by everyone, but you have to constantly plant your seeds. The goal of a millionaire is to be ubiquitous and cultivate a massive appeal. Always ask the question, “How can I deliver more value to more people in less time?” Soon enough, you’ll go from planting 1,000 seeds to 1,000,000 seeds at a time. You can’t control how many seeds will grow, but you can plant more seeds.

Millionaires aren’t born with these qualities. They are developed over a lifetime. If your goal is to become a millionaire, you must be ruthless in all of your endeavors. You must ceaselessly pursue your goal to serve people on the highest level. Take these suggestions and improve the quality and quantity of service that you offer. Your impact equals your income. If you want to make a bigger impact, develop these qualities for the rest of your life and watch your income grow!

12 Qualities of Self-Made Millionaires

Adewale

•She's not properly dressed, no hijab, no scarf, instead of you to preach to her, you are shouting "wow, you look sexy" brother you are part of the problem

•Rasulullah (saw) said "if you know what I know, you'll laugh less and cry more"does that ring a bell in our head?do we have to see before we believe? # Repent"

•I want to have money, I want to marry a beautiful wife, I want to buy a nice car, I want to build a big house, is that all we think about? We will all die & leave all these.

•you think regret is wen you did not marry the man you wanted, or did not study the course you liked?NO! Regret is you reaching the grave without enough good deeds" # Subhanallah

•Rich, poor, pretty, ugly, slim, fat, literate, illiterate, white, black, ustaz, pastor, player, King, slave, PDP, APC, DEATH does not care who you are, when its time, you are going"

•Someone is dead & you are alive, someone is sick & you are healthy, someone is lost & you are guided, why then are you sad because someone is rich & you are poor?why are you ungrateful?

•Ohboy see Benz, Chai see house, damn! see that babe" Bros the world is just a play & illusion, its beauty doesn't last, don't be carried away, seek Jannah"

•On Qiyamah, people will be naked, but the fear of judgement will not allow u look, have that fear now and stop asking, uploading or downloading nude pics

•Haba! Qiyamah still far na, because Dajjal never come, Mahdi never show up, Jesus too, even gog and magog. I go Repent b4 den. Abi??? Bro if you die tonight your judgement has started. #Repent!
•Wrong use of Social network will take many to hell if u don't #Repent!

•Rasulullah (SAW), said a man is in hell because of a piece of cloth dat doesn't belong to him, what about that $20 billion and public funds? #Repent!
•She wasn't your wife, you had sex with her, she became pregnant, you made her abort. Illegal relationship + Zina + murder, only you? Better #Repent before it's late..
•"Body no be firewood " Seriously? Is that why you commit zina? You no know say na de same body dem go carry do firewood for hell? Don't allow yours to be among. #Repent.
•Did I pass maths & English? What's your jamb score? You graduate with 1st class? Haba! Those are the only things you care about? He memorised Qur'an. Do you?
•Anyone who ain't your husband and wanna have sex with you, walahi! he's your enemy, his love is fake, no true love will want you to go to hell and miss Jannah.
•Maazaa! Guy how far! Chairmo! What's up Bro! How far na! What's all these? Are these the Islamic way of greetings? What's wrong with Assalamu alaikum? #Repent.
•Some men disrespecting their wives in front of their friends, What's dat? What r u trying to prove? That you're in control? Sannu remote control. #Repent.
•Drive your mom go market, yo go dey vex, but you Sabi do ajayi driver 4 girl from morning till night. Better #Repent.
•You never shed tears even once while reciting Holy Qur'an but Films dey make u cry, Hmmm check your Eeman!
•Eye liner, eye shadow, mascara, lip stick, concealer, blusher. powder, if you like do plastic surgery, if your heart is bad, you're deadly ugly.
•You'll finish your runs when it's time to marry you'll start searching for holy girl, Bros good women are for good men, if u carry holy girl, wetin holy man go marry??? #Repent.
•Allah can change you from Ajebota to Ajepako, it's all test of life, don't let your Ajebota life make u forget Allah, always remember Him & thank Him.
•If u'r not ready u can postpone your wedding date, graduation date, election date, but u can never postpone your death date, always be ready
•you feel depressed, instead of you to recite Qur'an or pray 2rak'at n, you carry earpiece dey listening to Lil Wayne, Davido, wizkid, they needs help too, seek Allah alone. #Repent!
•If you don't respect your parents, your life go bend, and you might end up in hell. #Repent!
•We are just striving & hoping for this world, we don't know our fate, yet we sleep all night. Rasulullah (SAW) was promised Jannah yet he stood at night 4 salah till his feet got swollen.
•I have meeting! I have meeting!!
Is that why u rush your salah?
SUBHANALLAH!!!
As'salam alaikum Warahmotullah wabarakatuh.

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Adewale Wednesday, 6 April 2016

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has attributed the recent power outages in some parts of the country to four turbines which stopped working in Jebba, Ilorin, Kwara state capital.

The minister, who also noted that there was currently not enough power to distribute unless more turbines were switched on, assured that electricity supply would be stabilized as soon as three of the four turbines had been restored.

While speaking on Channels Television on Thursday, Fashola said, “Yesterday morning, we had some outages in Jebba but I am happy to report now that all the four turbines that were down, three have been restored, so there is stability now.

“It is important why the power coming from Aba is defining; it’s part of what I’ve spoken about.

“There is not enough power in the country, so how do you share what is not enough such that everybody gets enough? It’s difficult, if not impossible.”

The Minister also expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari’s 10,000 megawatts target would be met, saying “So what we need to do is to get more power on. So about 200 megawatts coming from there is good news for the market,” he said.

Speaking further, Fashola criticized the acts of pipeline vandalism.

He attributed vandalism to be the cause of some of the energy problems in the country.

According to him, “Those who are vandalizing electricity assets, those who are selling stolen cable, those who are not paying their bills and those diverting electricity are all problems.

“Every one of us must contribute something now to solve the problem; it a problem we can solve.

“That will reduce the number of people who are contributing to being the problem,” the Minister stated.