LAGOS, (Reuters) – Electricity companies from Canada, India and Ireland are the final bidders to take over the management of Nigeria’s national grid, a contract likely to be awarded by the end of the year, a top official said yesterday.
Manitoba Hydro, owned by the Canadian province of Manitoba, India’s Power Grid Corp and Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) are the final bidders to manage the transmission grid in Africa’s most populous nation.
“I can tell you that we expect to finalise everything and hand over by the end of the year,” Bart Nnaji, head of a presidential taskforce charged with reforming Nigeria’s power sector, told Reuters.
