Fashola Urges Stakeholders’ Support to Improve Power Sector

 

 

 

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has appealed to stakeholders in the power sector to partner the Federal Government in its effort to overhaul the sector, Vanguard reports.

Fashola made the appeal while unveiling an overhauled generating unit of the Jebba Hydro Power Station on Monday. The rehabilitation work was the first carried out in the power station since it was inaugurated in 1985. Fashola noted

Nigeria to Receive $2.6m From GEF to Develop Power Sector

The Managing Director of UNIDO Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division, Philippe Scholtes has said Nigeria will get 2.6 million dollars to improve its electricity generation from Global Environment Facilities (GEF), The Guardian reports.

Scholtes made this known on Friday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Onu Ogbonnaya in his office. According to him, the fund will be used to boost small scale hydro power to ensure electricity get to rural areas in the country.