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Japan supports rural electrification

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    The Japanese government has promised some 530-million naira (US $4.7 million) in support of rural electrification projects in two northern states in Nigeria, ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported on Friday.

    The project sites, Bogoro in Bauchi State and Kalshingi in Gombe State, were selected following three joint surveys by a Japanese study team and Nigerian authorities in 1999 and 2000, according to a statement issued by the Japanese Embassy. The projects aim to construct transmission lines, a substation and distribution lines to improve the electrical capacity in the towns. A formal agreement between the two countries is due to be signed on Monday in the political capital, Abuja, the daily reported the embassy as saying.

    President Olusegun Obasanjo has made revamping Nigeria’s power system, neglected by successive military regimes, one of his priorities since his election into office in 1999.

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