Foreign Affairs Minister: Electricity supply to improve by first half of 2024

Amb. Maitama Tuggar, the Foreign Affairs Minister, has given Nigerians a reason to hope for better electricity supply by the first half of 2024.

He made this promise in an interview on Channel 4’s Politics Today on Tuesday.

He declared: “By the first half of next year (2024), Nigerians will witness a significant improvement in the electricity supply in the country.”

He explained that the electricity supply would be boosted by the completion of the ongoing AKK project, the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano project.

He also said that the President Bola Tinubu administration would handle the challenges that had hindered the progress of the power sector in the past.

Tuggar said the President Tinubu administration would continue the Siemens gas deal between Nigeria and Germany.

The minister, who is part of the president’s team at the G20 Compact with Africa Economic Conference in Germany, said the Siemens deal is “fully back on track”.

Tuggar said the gas deal between Nigeria and Germany is a mutually beneficial one.

He said, “Exporting gas to Germany or intending to do so does not mean that we are neglecting Nigeria’s domestic gas needs;

“Those will be met as well, but we also need the income that would come from such exports to invest more in expanding electricity and gas to other parts of Nigeria. So, it’s all interrelated, and one does not prevent the other from happening.”