The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to rescind its decision to further increase electricity tariff in June. The call was...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the Kaduna State government have made different claims over the state of electricity supply in that state. The TCN...
The Management of Kaduna Electric has disclosed that the current total power blackout in Kaduna State was due to the ongoing five-day warning strike embarked upon...
Ahead of the sallah celebration, Nigeria’s power grid collapsed on Wednesday with total blackout experienced in several parts of the nation. Kaduna Electric and Eko Electricity...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said it was considering the Extraordinary Tariff Review process for the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos), noting that the...
The Federal Government on Sunday slammed evidence contained in a report by the World Bank on distribution of electricity in Nigeria. Ripples Nigeria had reported that...
Nigeria has overtaken the Republic of Congo as the country with less access to electricity globally according to the World Bank. WBG Practice Manager, West and...
Hello, and welcome to Business Roundup this week. Here, we bring you highlights of events that happened during the week -from the capital market to the...
Against the backdrop of epileptic power supply, manufacturers in Nigeria spent a total of N143 billion generating their own electricity in 2019 and 2020. The figure...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed that Nigeria may be forced to cut off power supply to the Republics of Niger and Benin over...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has stated that a total of 8.734 million Megawatts-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated in the second quarter of 2020....
The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, said on Tuesday the Federal Government spends over N50 billion monthly on electricity. The minister, according to a statement issued...
The Federal Government on Thursday directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the new adjustment made recently on electricity tariff, in the country. NERC...
Nigerians are in for another tough year after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved a new increase in electricity tariff with effect from January 1....
Nigeria’s hydropower plants have been increased to four after the connection of a new plant to the national grid. Situated in Gombe State, the Dadin Kowa...
The Nigerian government is mulling supplying electricity to Chad, its West African neighbour, after a recent request by the country. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)...
Nigeria requires an outlay of $2 billion to provide electricity to 80 million people or roughly 39% of its population, who do not have access to power,...
Landlords with outstanding bills cannot transfer the payment obligation to tenants just renting their properties, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said Tuesday. The NERC made...
A Federal Government delegation is set to meet with the organised private labour and civil society groups in a bid to avert the planned nationwide over...
Manufacturers in Nigeria say 38% of their operating costs goes to generating alternative electricity just as their stockpile of unsold goods rocketed to a historic high...
The recent hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariff saw Nigerians took to the streets in different states on Tuesday, September 8, to protest...
The Nigerian government said it has spent N10.413 trillion on fuel subsidy in the last 13 years (2006-2019). The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday expressed his support for the Federal Government’s decision to hike electricity tariff and fuel pump price. In a chat...
The Presidency has explained why despite the fact that power generated in Nigeria is insufficient, the country still distributes electricity to Togo, Niger and Benin. The...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Sunday Nigerians were willing to pay for electricity if the services they received from the distribution companies improved. Osinbajo, who...
Nigeria’s West African neighbours – Togo, Benin and Niger – received a total invoice of N32.04 billion for the electricity supplied to them by the country...
The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has said that Nigerians currently enjoy between 18 and 24 hours of power supply every day. Mamman made the disclosure...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said on Saturday at least 62.3 percent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at...
Dearth of gas supply to Nigeria’s largest power plant, Egbin and 10 others were responsible for low electricity generation at the facilities on Monday. Other plants,...
Electricity consumers in the country are to enjoy two months of free supply, the umbrella body of power distribution companies, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED)...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Friday released guidelines for power industry operations during the coronavirus crisis, instructing stakeholders to maintain continuity of service as long...
Nigeria’s House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has regretted the failure of Nigerian Government to make life comfortable for Nigerians during the stay-at-home order The epileptic...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to empower states to control electricity supply, and declaration of public holidays. The...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that the accumulated bill of the power supplied by Nigeria to its West African neighbours – Benin, Togo...
Gas flaring activities among oil and gas firms cost Nigeria N521.9 billion (around $1.7 billion) in 2019, the latest statistics by the National Oil Spill Detection...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Thursday that Nigerians have to pay more for electricity, if they are to enjoy the benefits of liberalisation...
The Federal Government on Monday said the Managing Directors of the Rural Electrification Agency and the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company were sacked because they belonged...
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said on Monday that Nigeria’s electricity tariff would remain in place till April 1. The Executive Director of ANED,...
Workers in the nation’s power sector under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have suspended their strike action. The development was made...
Nigeria’s power generation and distribution companies have warned of the possibility of a blackout all over the country, if the Federal Government fails to grant their...
There are possibilities that electricity tariffs might escalate to new heights according to Sale Maman, the Power Minister. He said this on a phone-in radio programme...
The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED) has said Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) will need N8.7 billion to comply with the remittance order by the Nigerian...
That the current state of electricity supply in the country is a major killjoy for businesses is not, in anyway, an overstatement. Year on year, after a struggle to...
A nation that cannot control its energy sources can’t control its future- Barack Obama, the Audacity of Hope. Just the way the Federal Government came up...
There are indications that Nigerians may have to pay more for electricity as the federal government embarks on plans to boost the operations of electricity Distribution...
Not less than 36 persons have been arrested by the Police in Kano state for attempting to destroy Kano Electricity Distribution Company facilities at Zangon Dakata...
Plan by members of the Trade Union Congress to picket the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) may plunge the country into total darkness. This is even...
There is palpable fear that total blackout may ensue in the country, especially as the national electricity grid collapsed again on Thursday morning at 5:30 am....
The President of Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Adekunle Mokuolu, has called for an upward review of electricity tariff in the country. Mokuolu, who spoke memorial...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has said that manufacturers in the country spent a total of N246.38 billion to generate their own electricity between 2016...
