Tinubu kicks off $100m Southeast gas pipeline project

The Federal Government, done the South East Development Commission, SEDC, has kicked disconnected a $100 cardinal state organisation pipeline task to boost industrialisation, pull investments and make jobs successful the South East.

The 400-kilometre pipeline, designed to link state resources to concern and commercialized centres crossed Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi states, has astir 150 imaginable customers identified, with projected request of 254 cardinal modular cubic feet of state per day.

The concern statement for the task was signed connected Tuesday astatine the South-East Gas Infrastructure Investment and Project Development Ceremony held astatine Hotel Presidential, Enugu, marking a important measurement towards establishing a determination state organisation network.

Tinubu, represented by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, described the task arsenic a strategical concern that would link the region's earthy state resources to industries, fortify manufacturing and unlock economical opportunities crossed the 5 states.

“The Southeast's entrepreneurial tone is 1 of Nigeria's top economical assets. I person ever believed that the prosperity of the Southeast is inseparable from the prosperity of Nigeria,” the President said.

He said the task aligned with his administration's committedness to gathering an integrated determination economy, stressing that state infrastructure should enactment concern improvement crossed authorities boundaries alternatively than se...