Accelerating Delivery of Projects: A Period of Harvest for NIPP?

 

Power Plant

After initial hiccups, the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) has begun a monthly delivery of completed new projects towards the realisation of additional 4,774 megawatts, signaling a harvest time for Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Ejiofor Alike writes

Apparently miffed by the epileptic power situation in the country and the abysmal failure of the then National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) to address the situation, the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo had in 2004 set in motion a process to break the monopoly of the ailing power utility giant.

To actualise this aspiration, the former president had in the same year set up the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) as “a fast-track government-funded initiative to stabilise” the country’s power supply, which had suffered decades of lack of sustained investments...

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