- Northern Nigeria is to benefit from AfBB’s Power initiative.
- The project will serve about 250 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sokoto state is set to benefit from the African Development Bank (AfBD) $20 billion Desert to Power (DtP) initiative to provide on-grid and off-grid energy services to parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Speaking at a meeting with the Sokoto state government, President of the AfDB, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, disclosed that the DtP project currently covers parts of Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali. However, he explained that in the bank’s effort to actualize the realization of the power project, it would soon move to Northern Nigeria, where the project is expected to be the catalyst of other developmental projects it is unveiling in the West African sub-continent.
“The bank, under its Light Up and Power Africa Project, wants to partner Northern states of Nigeria, particularly Sokoto, which will, in earnest, benefit from a 55MW solar photovoltaic project for power generation,” Adesina added.
The Desert to Power initiative, according to AfDB, is a flagship initiative to harness the vast solar power potential across the Sahel region to provide access to electricity and enable socioeconomic development and resilience in the region.
The project is designed to benefit 250 million people in the target countries.