All is set for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan and Calabar-Port Harcourt rail lines respectively.
The minister for transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi finally puts pen to paper as both parties, the federal government and Sabiu Zakari,Managing Director, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC, Jack Li and Director, Legal Services in the Ministry signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the projects was made.
The highly pronounced power failures across the country in the past few days may worsen following a partial system collapse that occurred on Tuesday, and the continuous drop in electricity generation due to what the government says is the vandalism of pipelines that supply gas to the power plants. As a result, power generation dropped to 1,580.6 megawatts on Wednesday.Data from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator as well as information from senior officials of the different electricitydistribution companies confirmed that power generation plummeted massively on Tuesday and Wednesday. The officials noted that this resulted in the reduction of the electricity load allocated to the Discos, stressing that this was why many parts of the country had been recording blackouts in the past few days.It was learnt that the partial system collapse that occurred on Tuesday happened at the Shiroro Power Plant and dragged down electricity generationto as low as 1,233.4MW from a peak of 3,207.7MW...
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