Chinese Firm Completes Major Power Project In Nigeria - Punch

Chinese construction company Sinotec has
completed a major power project in Nigeria
which
links the capital city, and expected to contribute
immensely to the country’s national grid.
The project, which included the construction of a
330 kilo volts (kv) new-built transformer
substation,
132kv substation extension, 330kv transmission
line and 132kv tubular poles, was commissioned
on
Monday by Nigeria’s Vice President Namadi
Sambo.
Designed to be one of the biggest substations in
the West African country, the project, located in
Gwagwalada city of Abuja, was completed within
14
months after the site work commenced, Sinotec’s
deputy managing director, Bu Songbo, said at the
commissioning ceremony.
“We have completed many projects in the past
10
years (in Nigeria). However, this is the only one
which covered so many types of work scope,”
the
company manager said.
Chinedu Nebo, Nigeria’s minister of power,
described the project, executed under the National
Integrated Power Project scheme, as “a very
critical link in the national grid” of Africa’s most
populous country.
He said the Niger Delta Power Holding Company
of
Nigeria, which constructed the facility through
Sinotec, will be in its second phase of the project,
focus mainly on the construction of hydro power
plants in northern Nigeria to assure a mixed grid
distribution of power.
“All these will contribute immensely to the
national
grid,” said Sambo, noting he commissioned a
similar power project six days ago in the north
central state of Benue.