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The Dadin-Kowa Hydro-Power Plant in Gombe State, initiated in 1959 to generate 40 megawatts of electricity is now ready for inauguration after 60 years of execution setbacks.

Those familiar with the project described it as “a success story” despite the long delay it suffered. People of Dadin-Kowa and ading communities said the power project will add impetus to the socio-economic development of the northern region and the country at large.

Though the project was initiated a year before Nigeria’s independence, the contract for the dam project was not awarded until 1980, and the inauguration eight years later, in 1988, by then military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

The reservoir has a capacity of 800 million cubic meters of water and a surface area of 300 square km. The dam has potential as a source of fish, but nothing serious was done on the electricity potential until recently. Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State with other officials of the plant at the control section of Dadin-Kowa Hydro- Power Plant



While the dam was inaugurated nearly 40 years ago in 1988, work on the electricity component, designed to be producing 40 megawatts of electricity, has been going back and forth for 31 years after the dam components had been completed. The Dadin-Kowa Dam is located 5km north of Dadin- Kowa village and 37km from Gombe town, along Biu road.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/60yrs-after-40mw-dadin-kowa-hydro-power-ready-for-inauguration.html

Imagine! Previous governments including OBJ and ATIKU who ate our $16b MEANT FOR POWER PROJECTS could not complete this project but it took Buhari such a short time to complete.

Job well done Bubu

Blindersoff:
Imagine! Previous governments including OBJ and ATIKU who ate our $16b MEANT FOR POWER PROJECTS could not complete this project but it took Buhari such a short time to complete.

Job well done Bubu

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olumide3367:
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More like a water project than power project, 40mw is just d added advantage.

theenchanter:
More like a water project than power project, 40mw is just d added advantage.

You are very wrong.

40 Megawatts equates 40000000 (40 million watts)

40 million watts converts to about 2.3million volts which is enough to power over 2 million homes. It is not a water project with 40mw as added advantage but a source of power to over 2million homes.

Blindersoff:


You are very wrong.

40 Megawatts equates 40000000 (40 million watts)

40 million watts converts to about 2.3million volts which is enough to power over 2 million homes. It is not a water project with 40mw as added advantage but a source of power to over 2million homes.

will it be channeled to the national grid or its solely for gombe people?

seankafor:
will it be channeled to the national grid or its solely for gombe people?

That is for them to decide

Blindersoff:


You are very wrong.

40 Megawatts equates 40000000 (40 million watts)

40 million watts converts to about 2.3million volts which is enough to power over 2 million homes. It is not a water project with 40mw as added advantage but a source of power to over 2million homes.

40mw can't even power 100,000 homes. Electricity to household is calculated by kw/hr.

If 40mw can power 2m homes, then our miserable 4000mw should be able to power the whole country, which u already know the answer to.

As i said earlier, its more of a water or irrigation project rather than power, but the power is just an added advantage, but since most of nigerians are power-starved they think of power whenever the see any mw, even if the mw stands for "micro-wave"

theenchanter:
40mw can't even power 100,000 homes. Electricity to household is calculated by kw/hr.

If 40mw can power 2m homes, then our miserable 4000mw should be able to power the whole country, which u already know the answer to.

As i said earlier, its more of a water or irrigation project rather than power, but the power is just an added advantage, but since most of nigerians power-starved they think of power whenever the see any mw, even if the mw stands for "micro-wave"

smh it is clear you are confused and ignorant

Bazamfare:
Leave that nyamuri flat.head! because its not suited in Enugu state that's why his spewing that bullshit

I am igbo myself but i give credence to whomever it is due. Tribalism is something i abhor

Blindersoff:


smh it is clear you are confused and ignorant

how? U're more confused. Let me point ur error to u.

How many kw/h do u think a household would consume per annum?

Lets start from there.

Blindersoff:


My.nd44, Lalasticl.ala rule 2 pls

lol, when he called me names, u didn't call anybody... i didn't name-call him and u're calling d mods.

Such hypocrisy.

olumide3367:
zombie sighted

He said the truth politics aside.

Still sad , not happy "I repeat " not ready ..... Its new year , its all vanity.,... Am moving ,, keep enjoying "work starting " ( Jan is here ) .....


No be madness dey worry me so

Finally

my gen is more powerful...

40mw,60yrs. 800mw go take 48,000years

RUBBISH

Good job...
Now the national grid is 3040.
Buhari has really tried...
He added 40 MW to the national grid.
If we keep adding 40MW every 4 years.
It will takes 300 million years to have sufficient Electricity...

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olumide3367:
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eedimo:
RUBISH

olumide3367:
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Asshole sighted

All I know is by the year 2520 all of here would have become ancestors.

For real?

Good one . . . half bread is better than none.

40MW=40,000KW.

Which should power between 13,000-40,000 homes depending on consumption (assuming each home uses between 1KW-3KW, which of course would be determined by if it's urban or rural, commercial or residential, what time of the day or night).

Think of the power capacity like your "I my neighbor" = 1KW averagely, and your 2.5-3.5KW Elepaq or Sumec Firman generator, then do simple division.

@ Blindersoff and the Theenchanter pls continue m enjoying u....Nd learning lol

eedimo:
RUBISH

bad spelling.

olumide3367:
zombie sighted

Nor mind the zombified mumu.

For more than 40yrs the North were in power and could not complete this project that was awarded in 1980.

One idiot is blaming OBJ. Was Shagari sleeping then or was Buhari only concerned about WAI or was IBB blind abi ? Were Abacha and Abdulsalam brain dead? These people stupidity is raised to power 10.

Blindersoff:


You are very wrong.

40 Megawatts equates 40000000 (40 million watts)

40 million watts converts to about 2.3million volts which is enough to power over 2 million homes. It is not a water project with 40mw as added advantage but a source of power to over 2million homes.

You have the patience necessary to teach stubborn children especially marlians mathematics.