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Power plant to be built in Niger Delta

    NAIROBI
    Nigeria’s cabinet ratified on Wednesday a contract with the German firm Siemens to build a 276-megawatt power plant in the Niger Delta, news organisations reported. AFP quoted a government source as saying the contract was worth the equivalent of about US $108 million. The gas-powered plant is to be built at Afam in southeastern Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, according to AFP. The news agency recalled that in July the government signed a deal worth US $240 million with the Italian oil group Agip to build a 450-mw plant in another location in southern Nigeria. Meanwhile, ENRON Power Inc, a US firm, has started supplying Lagos State with barges expected to generate 270 mw of electricity in the first phase of a project signed in June with the government. The second phase involves building a 540-mw plant, ‘The Guardian’ of Lagos reported.

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