AfDB Approves $210m Power Transmission Project For Nigeria-TCN

 The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced on Thursday that the board of the African Development Bank, AfDB, has approved its $210m projects.

The TCN said the transmission projects were approved in a board resolution on Wednesday in AfDB Headquarters, Abidjan.

The Nigeria Transmission Expansion Programme is one of the projects under the Transmission Rehabilitation and Expansion Programme financed by the AfDB that is targeted at rehabilitating and expanding parts of the transmission grid in the North West, South South and the South East, according to a statement.

The TCN said the project would reconstruct old transmission lines and build new ones as well as construct new substations, contributing to further increase its transmission capacity.

TCN according to General Manager (Public Affairs), Ndidi Mbah, had earlier concluded and submitted environmental studies report to AfDB before the project approval.

She said the studies included a Resettlement Action Plan in which people that would be affected by the acquisition of the Right of Way for the proposed transmission lines were identified.

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