The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has declared that the nation’s electricity problems cannot be solved by magic. He said the problem of...
The electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) have kicked against the Federal Government’s choice to engage the Transmission Company of Nigeria...
Contrary to the position of the Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Sunday Oduntan, on meter supply, the Federal Government has...
Power generation in Nigeria dropped by 777.8 megawatts on Monday, the latest data from the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has shown. The plunge in...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says Nigeria’s current power generation has reached 7000 Mega Watts (MW), while distribution stands at an “all-time...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said it had recovered no fewer than 693 containers of power equipment abandoned at ports due to tariff in the...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved N72.9bn for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the toll gate on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Minister of Works,...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that after an initial slowdown, due to circumstances beyond its control, the President Muhammadu...
The Electricity Distribution Companies in the country said the problem of epileptic power supply in the country may not end in the next five years if...
The Federal Government has announced the postponement of the planned three-day closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for Investigative Maintenance Test to August 24 – August...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has hit back heavily on the Association of Electricity Distributors (ANED), describing it as an interloper. The...
The seeming suspicious mode of relationship between the federal government and electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria’s power sector on Friday got a little more scrappier...
The 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria on Tuesday said the claims by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on the status...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said the problem facing the nation’s electricity sector has changed from unavailability of power for distribution to...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday advocated for a landlord-tenant-employer’s relationship to ensure rents are deducted from tenants’ salaries at the...
The lower chamber of the National Assembly has begun an investigation into allegations by electricity consumers in the country over excessive charges being levied by power...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN. The suit filed by the group...
The nation has been plunged into total darkness as the power grid recorded a total collapse on Saturday morning, our correspondent has learnt. The system collapse...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the rehabilitation and construction of 14 roads in different parts of the country for a total of N185.3 billion....
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday kicked against the move by the House of Representatives to criminalise estimated billing by...
The federal government on Thursday said there were about 300 roads currently under construction across Nigeria, a development attributed to the Buhari administration’s investment of N300...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to provide information on spendings on the...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “sufficient interest to bring its suit to stop former governors...
The Federal Government has approved a new framework geared towards expanding the 33KVA and 11KVA electricity transmission lines in the country. The framework will ensure distribution...
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has confirmed the shocking revelation that the works ministry did not execute a single capital project in 2017....
The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has disclosed the Federal Executive Council (FEC)’s approval of an independent power system for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Thursday said the Federal Government was set to involve more Nigerian firms in meter manufacturing. Fashola spoke...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Sunday disclosed that Nigeria recorded new national peak with the transmission of 5,222.3 Mega Watts (MW) of electricity into the...
Reactions have continued to trail news of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development spending N700 million for a website, as Reno Omokri, former Special Assistant...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Wednesday revealed that the Federal Government had signed financial agreement for the execution of the Lagos-Abidjan highway...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed that the Federal Government needed to secure needed loans in order to achieve President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan of...
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has mocked the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola over his famous pre-election boast that any serious government would not...
The Federal Government Thursday hinted at a planned major review of the privatization done in the power sector soon, stating that it was to engender greater...
Following its verification of the total debt claim of N67.41bn owed electricity distribution companies (DisCos) by government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the Federal Government Wednesday...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has asked the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to probe the Managing Director of Egbin Power Plc, Dallas...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the construction of Mambilla Hydro-Electric Power plant at the sum of 5.792 billion dollars. This was disclosed following the...
The Senate on Wednesday again warned the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to desist from attacking the National Assembly. It said the...
With Lagos State terminating the N844bn Fourth Mainland Bridge contract, the last and main legacy of the immediate past governor of the state, Babatunde Fashola, seemed...
Despite the threat by the Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) to stop energy supply to the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos), the Minister of Power, Works and Housing,...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has revealed that the Federal Government is concentrating on infrastructure development to get the country out...
Various state governments, owed over N250 billion that they spent on Government Federal roads can only be refunded if the bonds to be floated in that...
The Senate, on Thursday, instructed its committee on Public Procurement to carry out a comprehensive investigation on alleged contracts racketeering and inflation to the tune of...
A new crisis that may further worsen electricity supply in Nigeria is brewing, with a faceoff between the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and service providers....
Nigerians may have to adjust to the reality of the current poor state of electricity in the country, which may be their lot for the next...
Concerted efforts to shore up Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s political influence in the Southwest received a boost on Saturday as a self-styled movement, ‘I stand with Tinubu’,...
Today marks exactly one year that President Muhammadu Buhari swore in his ministers, months after he assumed office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria....
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to beware of the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde...
Unless the Federal Government intervenes in good time, the power sector may finally grind to a total halt, resulting from inability of the various power generating...
In an effort to diversify the nation’s revenue profile, the National Economic Council (NEC) on Tuesday endorsed a plan to increase the contribution of the solid...
Electricity consumers in Nigeria may be in for another bout of darkness as the generating companies (Gencos) announced shutting down of some of their plants as...
