Nigeria bets on ‘super grid’ to fix Africa’s biggest power market

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The federal government is pinning its hopes on a new “Super Grid” transmission programme, part of a broader overhaul of Africa’s largest economy’s chronically unreliable power sector.

Joseph Tegbe, minister of power unveiled the plan on Friday at Nigeria’s commercial capital, framing it as the centerpiece of what the ministry is calling “Resetting the Sector”, an effort to fix a grid that has long undermined industrial growth in a country of more than 200 million people.

“The Super Grid Programme represents our medium and long-term strategy for expanding Nigeria’s transmission backbone along critical corridors,” Tegbe said.

He noted that the programme will reinforce the national grid, improve redundancy, enable higher power transfers across regions and create dedicated electricity corridors capable of supporting future industrial growth.

In the nearer term, the ministry is targeting three specific transmission corridors, Lagos, the Enugu–Port Harcourt axis, and the Abuja–Kaduna–Kano route, under what it calls a Grid Stabilisation Programme.

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