Dangote’s claims on abandoned 1,200km subsea gas pipeline not true, says FG
The decision to scrap the project was a business choice made by Dangote Group long before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration took office.
The decision to scrap the project was a business choice made by Dangote Group long before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration took office.
The second reason is the request from the then Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, now the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the then World Bank President, Dr James Wolfohnson, to build a power 50MW plant in Aba to assist both big and small manufacturers.
“If we are going to be a mid-level economy, then we should clearly be talking about having the sort of power supply that Brazil has, which is over 100, 000 megawatts. If we are going to have 100, 000 megawatts of power supply, then we need to have transmission lines to match that capacity, but we don’t have it”.