Sunday, 11 August 2013

Privatization: FG hands over PHCN to new investors September 21





Federal Government will hand over privatized successor companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to private investors on September 21, 2013, if the investors pay on schedule.

The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, PBE, Benjamin Dikki, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja.

He disclosed that the PHCN privatization was expected to earn the Federal Government about $2 billion.

They don’t have to go and lobby anybody, all they require is to meet the technical requirement, go to the regulatory authority, apply for licence and they are limited by their own ingenuity and their access to the capital.

The BPE boss said the privatization programme of the Federal Government had significantly opened up the Nigerian economy by creating the right atmosphere for greater private sector participation in several key sectors.

He said the telecommunications sector stood out in terms of attracting massive foreign investment, which he put at about $40 billion to date.

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