a écrit le 28 juin 2011 à 18h59 Nigerian university to buy electricity from Cameroon
One of the growing legion of private universities in Nigeria, the American University of Nigeria (AUN), is to buy 30 megawatts of electricity from neighbouring Cameroon to augment local supply, the local media reported Tuesday.
The report said the decision was aimed at alleviating the acute shortage of electricity at the university, situated in Yola, capital of Nigeria’s northern Adamawa state.
It said the decision was reached when Cameroon’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Salahudeen Ibrahim-Abbas, visited the state for a diplomatic meeting on power inter-connectivity between the two countries.
Nigeria suffers from a chronic power problem, because it is generating far less power than can meet the needs of its 150 million people
PANA / African Manager
One of the growing legion of private universities in Nigeria, the American University of Nigeria (AUN), is to buy 30 megawatts of electricity from neighbouring Cameroon to augment local supply, the local media reported Tuesday.
The report said the decision was aimed at alleviating the acute shortage of electricity at the university, situated in Yola, capital of Nigeria’s northern Adamawa state.
It said the decision was reached when Cameroon’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Salahudeen Ibrahim-Abbas, visited the state for a diplomatic meeting on power inter-connectivity between the two countries.
Nigeria suffers from a chronic power problem, because it is generating far less power than can meet the needs of its 150 million people
PANA / African Manager
