Nigeria Sovereign

Nigeria’s sovereign fund plans to build a 20 megawatts solar power plant in partnership with a local firm, first phase of a 300 megawatts project, the country’s Vice President Kashim Shettima said on Tuesday. Shettima did not disclose the cost of the project or when construction will start. Nigeria, with a population of more than 200 million people, has installed power generation capacity of 12,500 megawatts (MW) but produces a fraction of that, leaving millions…