Blackout: Nigerian Govt announces £17.9m EU, Germany support to boost electricity

The Nigerian authorities has announced a £17.9 cardinal European Union and German government-funded off-grid energy task to tackle the blackout.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Mahmuda Mamman, made this announcement successful the 3rd Phase of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme lawsuit connected Thursday.

The lawsuit was organized by the Nigerian Government, EU, and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur International Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, successful Abuja.

In his remarks, Mamman said the task volition assistance adjacent the spread of 100 cardinal Nigerians not having entree to electricity.

According to him, renewable is important successful addressing the challenges of providing energy for the unserved agrarian communities successful Nigeria.

“The Phase 3 of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme is due to the fact that of the successes recorded successful Phases 1 and two.

“Phases 1 and 2 person accrued entree to energy proviso successful agrarian areas successful Nigeria. About 100 cardinal radical successful Nigeria bash not person entree to electricity.”

In her remarks, Head of Section Green and Digital Economy astatine the EU Delegation to Nigeria, Inga Stefanowicz, said astatine slightest 5 cardinal Nigerians volition beryllium impacted by the project.

She noted that the inaugural volition adhd an further 400 megawatts to Nigeria’s energy proviso sector.

“We are targeting 5 cardinal radical to summation entree to electricity. And immoderate 400 megawatts of renewable energy are to beryllium generated.

“Solar installation for wellness projects, we enactment and enactment manus successful manus with authorities governments.

“EU financing for this project, we person allocated for the archetypal signifier £15 million, past £30 million, and for the 3rd signifier it is £9 million,” she stated.

Earlier, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Johannes Lehne, emphasized the country’s continued enactment for Nigeria’s powerfulness assemblage and vigor modulation plan.

Similarly, Head of Programme, NESP, Duke Benjamin, highlighted that the project, which commenced successful 2013, volition supply energy to agrarian communities not connected to the country’s nationalist grid.

DAILY POST reports Nigeria’s energy challenges had persisted contempt Hugh’s interventions.

In 2024 alone, Nigeria’s nationalist grid had collapsed astatine slightest 8 times.

Nigeria, with an estimated colonisation of implicit 250 million, generates lone 5000 megawatts of electricity.