NNPC To Build Make Fertilisers In Nigeria's South, Electricity In North
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it plans to set up a fertilizer plant in Brass, Bayelsa State, to boost agriculture in the South-South and other regions of the country and build three Independent Power Plants (IPP) in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano states. The project will have a combined capacity of 4,000 megawatts of electricity. The state oil corporation disclosed this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Nduka Ughamadu, in Abuja, on Tuesday. Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power of the corporation, Saidu Mohammed, said that the planned power projects would be driven by the coming on stream of the NNPC Power subsidiary, Gas and Power Investment Company (GPIC). Mohammed spoke at the inaugural board meeting of the GPIC He said the company would help the NNPC transform into an integrated energy company with the production of 4,000 megawatts of power at strategic locations. He added that all relevant stakeholders in the power sector wer...