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World Service,4 mins

Power to the People

Newsday

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Nigeria is Africa's largest economy, and has its biggest population at more than 170 million. But it only produces electricity fit for a city of a million people. As President Muhammadu Buhari marks his first year in office this week, he'll need to fix Nigeria's electricity problem to fulfil his promise of fixing the economy. The power plant with the largest generation capacity is Egbin in Lagos. Newsday's Nkem Ifejika went to visit the plant, to find out why Nigerians are living life in the dark... (Pic: Nkem Ifejika chats to Kole Adesina, chairman of the Egbin power plant; Credit: Âé¶¹Éç)

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