FG begins clearing power equipment stranded since 2014

By Soni Daniel
ABUJA — The Federal Government has begun clearing hundreds of containers of electricity equipment stranded at Nigerian ports for more than a decade, in a move aimed at recovering abandoned public assets and supporting critical power infrastructure projects.

The Ministry of Power has secured the release of the first 44 containers from Apapa Port, Lagos, out of more than 300 containers awaiting clearance, some since 2014.

The Minister of Power, Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe, disclosed this after the recent Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

He said the intervention followed President Bola Tinubu’s directive to the ministry to work with the Nigeria Customs Se...