Nigeria signs agreements to build nuclear power plant

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Nuclear power plant

Russia’s state-owned Rosatom and Nigeria have signed agreements for the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant and research centre in Africa’s biggest economy, Rosatom said on Monday.

“The development of nuclear technologies will allow Nigeria to strengthen its position as one of the leading countries of the African continent,” Anton Moskvin, Rosatom’s Vice President for Overseas Marketing and Business Development, said in a statement. (Reuters)

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