President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has flagged off the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited’s 350 megawatts Gwagwalada Integrated Power Plant Project to boost electricity supply.
This was disclosed on Friday in Nigeria Presidency’s verified Twitter handle.
The government said the project would address the country’s electricity challenges when completed.
The project would help increase Nigeria’s generation capacity beyond 12,000MW.
It explained that the GIPP project would sit on an already acquired 54.7hectares of land in Gwagwalada, Abuja, and is one of the critical power generation projects along the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline corridor, which is at 70% completion.
“Reaffirming Tinubu administration’s commitment to strengthening Nigeria’s energy sector. It aligns with President Tinubu’s campaign promise to increase power generation beyond the current 12,000MW, address power value chain challenges, and remove all distribution bottlenecks,” it wrote.
The government explained that the GIPP project would sit on an already acquired 54.7 hectares of land in Gwagwalada, Abuja.