NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo sacked, with immediate effect, the entire board of directors of the country’s electricity power supply authority, NEPA. He said a nine-member technical board to be under his office will be named shortly to assume the authority’s services. NEPA, one of the graft-ridden state-run parastatals earmarked for privatisation, has been on the firing line for plunging the country into frequent power blackouts. “There can only be one verdict: NEPA has failed, and failed woefully,” Obasanjo said.