kanji restored

Govt restores Kainji hydro power station
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THE Kainji dam Power Station is back on stream and delivering power to the national grid from its four available units that were shut downthree days ago.
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji stated on Monday that the 760 mega watts Kainji Hydro Power Station in Niger State, which was shut down on Thursday last week, due to excessive water leakage in the dam has been restored.
Consequently, power from the four units (a combined 233MW of electricity), were cut off from the national grid, following the permission granted by the Minister to shut down the station in order to investigate the source of leakage.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Kainji Power Plant, Engineer Yinka Akinwumi, informed the minister last night that inspection on the four units has been completed and that the plant has been tied to the national grid once more, delivering 233MW of electricity.
Akinwumi has explained that this problem is “normal” because the plant is old (constructed in 1968) and has suffered maintenance and overhaul neglect since it was commissioned 44 years ago.
He, however, said that there is hope for improvement following an ongoing World Bank programme to rehabilitate four of the turbines in Phase 1 of a two-phased project to rehabilate the station in order to reach its installed capacity of 760MW.
Apologising to Nigerians for the power outage, which emerged from the shutdown, the minister had said it wasregrettable that it occurred when there is a considerable reduction in national power supply as a result of shortage in gas supply to thermal power stations.