Nigeria’s bilateral relationship with Germany has resulted in an improvement in electricity supply, an official announced on Wednesday.
The collaboration includes the management of two transmission power substations by German electricity giant Siemens, Nigeria’s power minister, Adebayo Adelabu, told journalists in Abuja following a meeting between the presidents of Nigeria and Germany.
According to Mr. Adelabu, the partnership encompasses “the installation and commissioning of 10 power transformers and 10 power mobile substations,” which has “added nothing less than 750 megawatts to our transmission grid capacity.”
Mr Adelabu said as part of the partnership, “Simiens is actually implementing the Brownfield and Greenfield transmission substations of the Presidential Power initiative.”
He explained that since the signing of the agreement in Dubai at COP 28 last December, the country has made significant progress.
“We have completed the pilot phase of this project, up to 80 per cent. The relative stability that we are seeing in the grid today is the direct positive impact of the pilot stage completion.
“And we believe that before the end of the year, an additional 150 megawatts capacity is going to be added upon completion of the entire pilot phase. And we are quite confident from the satisfaction that we got from the completion of the pilot stage,” he said.
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“That’s why we are telling Nigerians that this is a very old grid. It’s quite fragile and it’s dilapidating. We need to revamp the entire grid for us to be sure of stability going forward. That is the presidential power initiative,” he added.
“With the new road from Badagry to Sokoto, a lot of these dams will also be opened up. So we have so many opportunities and potentials on what we can do with Germany for us to achieve expanded energy access to our people going forward.”
Also speaking, Bola Tinubu said: “We plan to strengthen the relationship and build partnership that is fulfilling and rewarding to the two countries, people to people relationship, and government to government facilitation of opportunities and prosperity.”
In his remarks, the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said Nigeria is Germany’s second largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa.
“So I’m happy and grateful that we took a lot of time to engage with one another. We promised each other that we both with our opportunities and the governments on both sides will do everything in our power to promote political and cultural ties and also promote and intensify People to People contacts,” he said.
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