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Abia Secures $750mln World Bank Support For Renewable Energy

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August 21, 2025
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Abia State government says it is collaborating with the International Solar Alliance (ISA) to develop regulations for the operation of the mini-grid in the state put at Seven hundred and Fifty million US dollar.

The Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu announced this at Government House Umuahia, while briefing the press on the outcome of this week’s State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti.

Kanu said that the $750 million World Bank intervention and renewable energy development programme would boost the electricity sector of the state.

He maintained that Abia was committed to power sector to attract investments and make the private sector thrive.

According to him, the initiative was part of the state government’s agenda to generate and attract investors into that sector and explained that ISA is an intergovernmental treaty-based organization with 123 member countries.

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The Commissioner explained that the signing into law of the state electricity law 2025 would empower the state government to explore to the fullest, the whole gamut of the state’s electricity value chain in order to drive industrial growth in the state.

On Environmental Management, the Commissioner disclosed that Abia State Environmental Management Agency, ASEPA has positioned 2.7 tonne smaller size of receptacles around the cities of Aba and Umuahia for starters, stressing that the small size would help the agency navigate through roads and streets that are not wide.

He further informed that ASEPA has also embarked on the massive clean-up of major waterways and drainage around Umuahia, especially Afara through Umuahia, down to Isialangwa to avert flooding in the areas.

Contributing, the Chairman Abia state Civil Service Commission, Pastor Eno Jerry-Eze, said the present administration was interested in ensuring that capacity is built amongst the civil servants stressing that the Commission is carrying out skill mapping exercise audit in all MDAs in the state.
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