The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), on Monday urged Nigerians to disregard ongoing reports of an explosion in Kainji Dam, describing it as 'fake news'. NIHSA Director General, Mr ...

The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has signed a contract with Hydro China and Harbin Electricity Corporation of China for the rehabilitation of the Kainji hydroelectric dam.

“What happens is that the River Niger runs through that republic which is our main source of water supply to the Kainji Dam; if Niger constructs a Dam, our source of water supply will be cut off ...

The two plants are 100km apart with Kainji dam situated on the upstream of Jebba. The two hydro power plants have installed capacities of 760Mw and 578.4Mw.

Within four years, we shall start sending out power. Even the Kainji Dam, as we speak, is being enlarged and improved on. Sometimes some turbines are removed and replaced.

Kainji Lake was created in 1968 by the construction of the Kainji Dam and covers an area of around 1300 sq km with a mean depth of 12 m. Water from the Niger River, the third-longest river in ...

In the late-1960s, the Kainji Dam on the powerful Niger River was completed in northwest Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. As a result of the dam, Lake Kainji was formed, and many people ...

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