The Kainji Dam, located on the Niger River near New Bussa in Niger State, is one of the largest in West Africa and serves as a major source of hydroelectric power, irrigation, ...

Kainji Dam (image used for illustration) [ThisDay] N; The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), on Monday urged Nigerians to disregard ongoing reports of an explosion in Kainji Dam ...

All dam projects under construction must be urgently completed. There are dams uncompleted since the 1980s. A main challenge in Nigeria is policy discontinuity by successive governments.

Aliyu Abdulhameed, managing director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), ...

He added that the dam was designed to be bigger than the Kainji dam which according to him has a capacity to store 15 billion cubic meters of water. Subscribe to receive daily news updates.

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Aliyu Abdulhameed, has blamed poor railway infrastructure for the recent devastating flood in Mokwa, ...

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.

Kainji Dam, located in the centre of the image, produces electricity for most of Nigeria’s cities. The dam is the largest of the dams on the Niger, over 66 m high and 550 m across.