L-R: Managing Director/CEO, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, during a courtesy visit by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC), Engr. Jennifer Adighije, to the Authority’s headquarters in Lagos recently.
The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) has said an intervention by the country’s ports regulator has spared it billions of naira in losses, underscoring how logistics bottlenecks at the nation’s harbours have become a quiet but costly threat to the power sector’s infrastructure rollout.
According to NDPHC, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) helped recover several of its cargoes that had been left stranded at seaports around the country. The acknowledgement came during a courtesy visit by NDPHC’s management team to NPA’s headquarters on Lagos’s Marina waterfront — the kind of face-to-face diplomacy that, in Nigeria’s infrastructure world, often matters as much as the paperwork behind it.
Leading the delegation was Jennifer Adighije, managing director and CEO of NDPHC, who framed the visit as an effort to reinforce ties between two state institutions whose work rarely overlaps in the public imagination but is, in practice, deeply intertwined. Power equipment, turbines, transformers, and transmission hardware, has to clear a port before it can ever reach a generating station.
“The engagement was aimed at strengthening the strategic partnership between both organisations and deepening collaboration in areas of mutual interest,” Adighije said, according to a statement from the company.
She singled out Abubakar Dantsoho,…
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