{"id":240993,"date":"2026-08-13T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-renewable-energy-programmes-unlock-1-3bn-investment-fg\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:48:19","slug":"nigeria-renewable-energy-programmes-unlock-1-3bn-investment-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-renewable-energy-programmes-unlock-1-3bn-investment-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Renewable Energy Programmes Unlock $1.3bn Investment &#8211; FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The federal government says its flagship renewable energy programmes have attracted more than $1.3 billion in investment commitments, underscoring growing investor confidence in the country&#8217;s clean energy sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Climate Technology, Olamide Fagbuji, stated this during the Lagos Solar Forum, describing the investment expansion as efforts to expand electricity access and drive industrial growth through renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;The Nigeria Electrification&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government says its flagship renewable energy programmes have attracted more than $1.3 billion in investment commitments, underscoring growing investor confidence in the country&#8217;s clean energy sector. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Climate Technology, Olamide Fagbuji, stated this during the Lagos Solar Forum, describing the investment expansion as efforts to expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[55144,258,256,7424,6018,257,4687,393,10782,11622,254,19587],"class_list":["post-240993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-1-3bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-energy","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-programmes","tag-renewable","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unlock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}