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750MW Olorunsogo II Power Station Inaugurated by
President Goodluck Jonathan in Papalanto, Ogun on Friday (Photo:
reporters365.com)
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Vice President,
Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday said that the 10 newly-completed thermal power
plants would add about 4,700 megawatts to the national grid.
The Minister of Power,
Prof Chinedu Nebo had said during the commissioning of 750mw of the Olorunshogo
power station built by Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria last week
that the President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had as part of its agenda
of transforming the power sector added over 2,500mw to the national grid,
adding that the power stations will ramp up power supply to the national grid
to 5,000mw.
Sambo spoke in Kaduna
at a meeting with some PDP grass-roots support groups.
A statement signed by
the Special Adviser to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Umar
Sani, said that the groups comprised the party's ward executives in the 250
wards in the state, ward coordinators of the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential
Campaign organization, as well as their Governor Ramalan Yero /Bajoga Campaign
organization counterparts, the Igbo and Yoruba for Goodluck/Sambo supporters
among others.
According to him, the
present administration "has done a lot in the areas of power generation,
transmission and distribution by completing 10 new thermal power plants that
would add about 4,700mw to the national grid and initiating several new power
projects across the country."
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