The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Maitama Tuggar, has said that with the Siemens gas deal between Nigeria and Germany, Nigerians will experience improved electricity supply by the first half of 2024.

Tuggar stated this while speaking virtually on a monitored program from Berlin, Germany.

Former President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2018 promised to expand Nigeria’s electricity capacity, which is currently at 4,000 megawatts, to 25,000 MW by 2025 when he signed a deal with Siemens Energy in Germany under the Presidential Power Initiative, but the project has not been actualized.

However, the minister, who is part of the president’s team at the G20 Compact with Africa Economic Conference in Germany, said the Siemens deal is “fully back”.

Tuggar further said that the electricity supply would improve with the completion of the ongoing AKK project, the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano project.