Federal Government has inaugurated a $500m Japanese International

Cooperation Agency intervention project to strengthen power transmission

infrastructure along the Lagos-Ogun industrial corridor.

The Special Adviser on Strategic Communication and Media Relations to

Minister of Power, Bolaji Tunji, who disclosed this in a statement said, the

Lagos-Ogun industrial corridor is a key industrial hub in southwestern

Nigeria, featuring a high concentration of manufacturing industries and

economic activities, but facing challenges such as inadequate power supply

and poor infrastructure, which the $500m JICA project aims to address.

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who disclosed this while playing

host to the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, in Abuja also said, the JICA

project aims to boost power transmission infrastructure within and outside

the Ogun industrial corridors, covering Agbara, Mowe, and Shagamu

industrial clusters, and will involve building additional power transmission

substations and upgrading existing ones, as well as re-conductoring existing

weak high voltage power lines and new extensions for capacity strengthening

and expansion.

He also appealed to the governor to collaborate with the power ministry to

impress on gas pipeline operators to improve the pipeline infrastructures

passing through the state to boost the pressure quality and quantity of gas

supplies to power plants and industries, and commended the minister for

the improvements in power supply and urged him to sustain the

momentum.