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Alhaji Jibril also used the opportunity to enjoin all residents to cooperate with the utility on the new tariff regime that takes effect from February 1, 2016, stressing: “We all know the value of electricity to our lives and must therefore help the AEDC to serve us better.”

Making the announcement on the second day of the 1st US-Africa Summit, World Bank Group President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said the new financial commitment was urgently needed to generate more electricity for the people of Africa, 600 million of whom have no access to electricity, despite the fact that Africa possesses some of the world’s largest hydropower, geothermal, wind and solar potential, as well as significant oil and natural gas reserves