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Nigeria will build the second-largest hydroelectric plant in Africa after the government settled a legal dispute that was delaying the project, Power Minister Sale Mamman said.
“We have now overcome the major problem stopping this project and it is nearly over,†Mamman said. He said Attorney General Abubakar Malami is finalising the terms of the settlement, which are undisclosed.
Only 60% of residents of Africa’s most populous country have access to electricity and even those who do are plagued by regular outages.
The only bigger hydro power facility in Africa is Ethiopia’s 6,000-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which was started in 2011 and is now more than five years behind schedule.