Electricity: Cabinet endorses multi-million naira contracts for Power Transmission

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved multi-million naira contracts for the procurement of electrical equipment for the Transmission Company of Nigeria.

The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman disclosed this to Journalists at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mamman said he presented three memos which were all approved.

He said: “One is for the construction of a 45 km Offafa-Umuahia Transmission Line in Abia State, in the sum of $170,465 plus N814.1 million.

“The second one is the construction of 150/33/132/33 substation at Obajana with line base extension at Lokoja in the sum of N259.9 million.

“The last one is the construction, design, and supply of a 2×50 MVA 132 33 substation at Ikom with 2×132 line base transmission at Calabar, Cross River State. It also includes the design and construction of 220 km Calabar-Ikom 132 Cable Double Circuit Transmission Line. The amount is $39.9m plus N9.5 billion.”

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