The Kainji Dam as we know, is a dam across the Niger River in Niger State and the first dam project in Nigeria.

Construction of the dam was carried out by Impregilo (a consortium of Italian Civil Engineering Contractors) to designs by Joint Consultants, Balfour Beatty and Nedeco, and began in 1964 to be completed in 1968.

The total cost was estimated at US$209 million which is equivalent to about US$1.4 billion today.

The dam was designed to have a generating capacity of 960 megawatts; however, only 8 of its 12 turbines have been installed, reducing the capacity to 760 megawatts.

The dam generates electricity for some large cities in Nigeria while some of the electricity is sold to neighbouring countries.

Below are some of the construction pictures I could get and some recent pictures as well.

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Some recent pictures

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You can add more details, facts and pictures if you have any.

SMH.

Wonderful and educative piece. Thanks OP. The pics are breathtaking

But FG should at least help install the additional 4 turbines so that we can have access to more power.



Can't believe we have not installed them after all thes.e years

micfoley:
Wonderful and educative piece. Thanks OP. The pics are breahtaking

But FG should at least help install the additional 4 turbines so that we can have access to more power.



Can't believe we have not installed them after all thes.e years

The Dadin Kowa Dam in Gombe state have been completed since 1984, all civilian governments since Obasanjo, GEJ and now Buhari have allocated billions of naira to install turbines but nothing has been done.

Its hard to believe that a dam completed in 1984 haven't generated at least a megawatt of power in 2020

Had to add this.

Lalasticlala

CARLOSZ:
Had to add this.

Lalasticlala

Seconded

Together we can make Nigeria better

#NYM

God bless Nigeria

Dams are always massive projects,

freshkpomo:

Seconded

Together we can make Nigeria better

#NYM

God bless Nigeria

Thanks

Ayt27:
Dams are always massive projects,

That's the truth

Nice one

Local man just dey wonder why we can't boast of 24hrs power supply

Let's blame Buhari

Let's try solar storage
It's more efficient and better
This is old system !

This dam was build during Nigeria's hey days before our politicians went haywire and started stealing everything in sight!

That was when Nigeria as a country is working and sane.

Interesting.

I heard the dam is still operating below capacity. One way to increase power generation is to get all power stations operating at their maximum capacities

M

Hallams:
I heard the dam is still operating below capacity

only 8 out of the 12 are functional.

Maybe we should just tryout nuclear energy as another option for generating electricity

It looks ridiculous now

BigTableShaker:
SMH.

Why?Do you want to break ur neck ni?

Nice

I don't understand how water is use to generate electricity


I can't seem to understand at all

Can someone please explain, how can a body of water generate electricity

Ok

Why sell

Yet we don't have up to 10000MW as at 2021





Sucks

Isoright

We are still living in the Glory of many years past
No new developments