North-East Governors Push Regional Energy Agenda, Seek Speedy Completion of Mambila Hydropower
By Yusuf A Yusuf,Damaturu The Northeast Governors' Forum (NEGF) says it has transformed power supply from a problem that each state handles independently to a shared regional energy agenda for the sub-region. It also wants member states to take full advantage of the new electricity law and the region's abundant sunshine to expand solar and mini-grid technologies. The position was stated in an eleven-point communiqué issued in Maiduguri on Saturday at the end of the Forum's 13th meeting. The communiqué, signed by Forum’s chairman and Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, and read by the Vice Chairman of the Forum and Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Ahmodu Umoru Fintiri. The governors noted that the Dadinkowa hydropower plant in Gombe State now feeds the national grid. They described this as one result of their joint efforts to provide power and energise the sub-region. The Forum restated its long-standing concern over what it called the seeming n...