State Legislation of Electric Power- Silver Bullet to Nigeria’s Power Woes?

Recently, social media and the press generally were awash with the news that the Nigerian House of Representatives was making moves to alter the provisions of the 1999 Constitution to allow each State to make laws relating to the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in areas covered by Nigeria’s national grid.  Specifically, law-making relating to electricity generation, transmission, and distribution has been a matter under the concurrent legislative list such that both the federal government and individual States could make laws. Incidentally, the Constitution does make the distribution of power within a State, strictu sensu, a residual matter upon which only States should be entitled to make laws.