President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurates the 330/132/33KV sub-station at Akurba community, a suburb of Lafia, Nasarawa State.

The power sub-station is part of the projects marked out for inauguration by the president during his two-day official visit to Nasarawa State.

Agency reports say the president was accompanied by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, and Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state.

Others are, Ministers of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, Justice, Abubakar Malami, Science and Technology, Ogbonnaye Onu, and Mohammed Abdullahi State, Science and Technology.

Members of the National and State House of Assembly from Nasarawa State also accompanied the president.

Speaking to newsmen after the inauguration, the minister of power Abubakar Aliyu said the project is one of the legacy projects of the president in the state.

The minister said that the project, which began in 2017, had been completed and the people of the state were already benefiting from it.

He listed some benefits of the project, including rapid growth in the socio-economic activities by way of attracting foreign investors who will create jobs.

Abubakar Aliyu added that with the inauguration, Nasarawa State has now become a centre of electricity distribution.

On the issue of estimated billing, the minister said that measures had been put in place to tackle it by ensuring that every consumer is metered.

He explained that under the mass metering initiative of the federal government, more than one million people were metered and more than four million meters were available for distribution in the second phase of the programme.

In a related development, President Muhammadu Buhari also inaugurates the Lafia Cargo Airport as part of activities of his two-day working visit to Nasarawa State.

Nasarawa state Gov., Abdullahi Sule, while welcoming the president, informed him that the airport project was initiated by his predecessor, Umaru Al-Makura as an alternative to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

The airport project began in December 2015 and was geared towards attracting investment in Nasarawa State.