The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has promised to establish 4,600 power plants in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano.
Confirming this, in Abuja, on Tuesday, NNPC spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu, stated that this would be done through the recently-approved contract for the construction of Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project, dubbed AKK Pipeline.
He said that the AKK pipeline had started yielding early benefits with the commitment by NNPC to build power-generating plants with combined capacity of 4,550 megawatts in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano states.
Ughamadu said that the NNPC Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, had agreed that the NNPC should work in partnership with private investors to build power-generating plants to support the Federal Government’s effort to provide stable electricity in the country.
”As part of the drive to establish power plants to augment the power supply to the nation, the Federal Executive Council recently approved the AKK Gas Pipeline project to be financed through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
”The project comes with other auxiliary ones, which include, 1,350 megawatts, 900 megawatts and 2,350 megawatts of power generation plants in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano respectively,” the statement quotes Baru as saying.
According to his statement, in line with the presidential mandate on oil exploration in all the frontier basins, the NNPC was well-focused on the exploration in the Bida Basin.
He added that they had contracted the geological mapping of the Bida Basin to Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai, and the job would be completed in three months.
Ughamadu said the corporation would go into more detailed seismic data acquisition in the Bida Basin by August 2018, to be followed by an Environmental Impact Assessment exercise.
