Federal Government Flags Off N12bn Renewed Hope Solar Project

The national authorities has launched a seven-megawatt star task astatine the infirmary wrong 48 hours aft the powerfulness quality betwixt Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO).

During the flag-off successful Kano, Abubakar Bichi, president of the House of Representatives Committee connected Appropriations and subordinate representing Bichi Federal constituency, said implicit N12 cardinal is committed to the project, which is expected to marque the infirmary autarkic of the nationalist grid.

Bichi, the task facilitator, said the task is portion of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration’s determination to solarise each tertiary institutions and teaching hospitals nationwide, starting with Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.

Hon. Bichi thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for approving and supporting the project.

He said that the task demonstrated President Tinubu’s committedness to improving healthcare infrastructure successful Nigeria nether the Renewed Hope Agenda.

He said that the national authorities has already allocated N300 cardinal successful the 2025 budget, and precise soon, each our tertiary institutions and teaching hospitals, including those owned by immoderate states, volition person 24/7 star power.

In 2025, we attracted implicit N26bn successful projects to this hospital, which has ne'er been done before. We are besides moving connected different 5-6 megawatts astatine BUK, 4 megawatts astatine ADUSTECH Wudil, and 3 megawatts astatine Murtala and Nasarawa hospitals.

“We indispensable commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his committedness to improving healthcare infrastructure successful Nigeria nether the Renewed Hope Agenda.”

Earlier, the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Uche Nnaji, said the task is conscionable the opening of transforming the Renewed Hope Agenda imaginativeness into action.

For his part, Dr Mustapha Abdullahi, the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), the bureau wherever the task is domiciled, promised that the task would beryllium delivered earlier the extremity of December.

He said the committee is committed to providing clean, reliable, and affordable vigor successful each Nigerian tertiary institutions and teaching hospitals, saying vigor bills from DisCos are not sustainable.

“This task is the archetypal of its benignant successful the country, and we expect astir 10,000. It volition scope each 36 states and the FCT. By the clip we finish, each the facilities volition beryllium 100% solarised,” the DG explained.

AKTH Chief Medical Director Professor Abdulrahman Sheshe said that erstwhile completed, the infirmary volition prevention much than 30 per cent of its expenses.

“We walk astir N150 cardinal monthly connected energy bills and different N30 cardinal to bargain diesel that powers our generators. So, this task could not person travel astatine a amended time, particularly successful the look of our caller powerfulness dispute.

Before the flag-off, Hon. Bichi inspected the ongoing operation of the five-storey Accident and Emergency and Trauma Centre Unit, which the Federal Government is building, a task helium besides facilitated.