NIPP sale: BPE ignores Reps, NNPC bids for power plants
The Punch
Published 6 July 2021
The Bureau of Public Enterprises on Monday assured prospective power investors that the five National Integrated Power Plants put up for sale would go on as planned despite calls for its suspension by the House of Representatives.
Also, documents sighted in Abuja on Monday showed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had submitted Expression of Interest to the BPE to acquire the five NIPPs though NNPC Gas and Power Investment Company Limited.
On July 1, The PUNCH reported that the House of Representatives asked the Federal Government to suspend plan to sell the NIPPs owned by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited until the lingering issues on the ownership of the firm were resolved.