July 06, (THEWILL) – The World Bank Mission, in partnership with the Federal Government, through the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), is to spend $750 million, to provide Solar energy to eight universities across the country and one Teaching Hospital, through the Energising Education and Access To Renewable Energy Scale-Up { D•A•R•E•S } programmes under phase two of the project.
Ashish Khanna, the World Bank Practice Manager for West Africa, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy call to the Acting Governor of Borno state, Umar Kadafur, in Maiduguri, on Friday.
He said that already, the World Bank has expended $350 million in 7 universities and one Teaching Hospital under the second phase of the project, in which the University of Maiduguri and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital are the largest beneficiaries.
The second Phase of the Energising Education Programme will see the provision of solar hybrid…
