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Nigeria plans new hydro-electric dam

Thursday, 11 February 2010


KADUNA, Feb 10 (Commodity Online): The government of Nigeria announced plans to move forward with a hydroelectric dam project in the central state of Kaduna, local officials said.
Namadi Sambo, the governor of Kaduna, said the federal government approved a plan to build a major hydroelectric project in his state, Nigeria's Next newspaper reports.
He added the project was intended originally as a water-supply facility, but plans for electricity generation were added later to the project.