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One Minute With Abba Aliyu, head of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency

Dr Abba Aliyu, Managing Director and CEO of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency, tells ENN’s One Minute With series what he sees as the most important thing being built in Nigerian energy, and where in Nigeria he would take someone to see it working, ahead of Nigeria NOW! in Abuja on 19 and 20 November.

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