PGCIL executives meet Nigerian Power Minister

Power Grid Corporation of India executives have met with Nigerian Minister of State for Power Nuhu Wya to buttress their case for assuming management control of Transmission Company of Nigeria after emerging as the lowest bidder for the role in a 2007 auction.

The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mahesh Sachdev, led a delegation of representatives from PGCIL and India's National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to the office of the minister in the country's capital, Abuja.

He said the delegation had come to restate its commitment to work for the improvement of the Nigerian transmission system "for faster economic transformation".

"... India and Nigeria could be economic talking points of the globe in the next decade if they work together and appropriately deploy their surplus natural and human gifts," Sachdev said.