Nigeria: The AKK Gas Pipeline

6 July 2020

The gas pipeline has the potential to catalyse industrialisation and job creation, writes Idris Bugaje

The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline is a 40-inch diameter, 614-km long natural gas pipeline recently launched by President Muhammadu Buhari, marking a very significant infrastructure thrust with great potential to create petrochemical industries, power generation plants and millions of downstream jobs. Anchored by the NNPC, it aims to produce a steady and guaranteed gas supply network between the northern and southern parts of Nigeria by harnessing Nigeria's vast gas resources, a good part of which is currently flared and wasted.

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