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Electricity: Why Nigeria’s partnering Siemens and what we hope to achieve – Buhari
"My challenge to Siemens, our partner investors in the Distribution Companies, the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Electricity Regulator is to work hard to achieve 7,000 megawatts of reliable power supply by 2021 and 11,000 megawatts by 20...
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Kenyan finance minister to be arrested, charged over graft – Prosecutor
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