The lights flicker, and sometimes they don’t come back on, a reality millions of Nigerians know all too well. But behind this frustrating inconsistency lies a...
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has cited the activities of bandits and vandals as the primary reasons for the persistent instability in Nigeria’s power sector....
The Nigerian government has announced plans to spend approximately N2.4 trillion on power subsidies before the end of the year. This move is aimed at addressing...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Monday, accused the Federal Government of deliberately prolonging the power outage in Northern Nigeria, deepening the region’s economic woes. The...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Tuesday efforts to fully repair the national grid are almost complete following a partial disturbance on Monday. The...
In a move aimed at bolstering its ongoing power sector reforms, the Nigerian government has requested a $50 million loan from the World Bank. The Minister...
The Nigeria Senate has described the power distribution companies (DisCos) in the country as complete failures which have added nothing significant to the Nigerian power sector....
A glimmer of hope flickers for Nigeria’s electricity woes, as plans to inject 30 dormant megawatts (MW) from the Kashimbilla hydropower plant into the national grid...
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has assured Nigerians that electricity supply across the country will be prioritised by his ministry in 2024 in line with President...
The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, said on Saturday the state government would prioritise security, power, and road development in the 2023 budget. The governor gave...
Nigerians have over the past few months depended mostly on alternative power supplies following repeated collapse of the National Grid. But within the last few days,...
Nigeria’s power sector peak electricity generation continued to struggle to stay above 4000 megawatts, despite huge energy demand from Nigerians in the face of petrol scarcity...
A former Power Minister, Barth Nnaji, on Monday, gave suggestions towards redressing the power challenges bedeviling the country. Nnaji, who is also a governorship aspirant in...
Strange things happen. One of such happened in an unlikely place last week. In Nigeria. Our President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari apologized to us on the myriad...
Members of the House of Representatives, on Thursday, declared that the problem of the power sector in Nigeria lies in lack of policies that would make...
A former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, on Friday called for power shift to southern Nigeria in 2023. Shettima made the call at the public...
The country’s national power grid experienced a full system collapse on Wednesday morning, May 12, resulting in blackouts across several parts of the nation. The Transmission...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has stated that it has completed the construction of a new transmission tower in Ajah, Lagos state. The TCN’s General...
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...
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated that nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any citizen. He went further to say that it was better that one...
Power generation in Nigeria received a boost on Sunday, lifted by an elevation of 979 megawatts (mw) in the total generated power to 4,312.1mw as 16...
Power generation in the country fell on Sunday as four more power plants shut down within two days, bringing the total number of idle plants to...
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 Federal Government has stripped ministers of the power to relieve heads of agencies and parastatals under their ministries of their duties. This was disclosed by...
The output levels of Nigeria’s hydropower plants recorded rapid depletion in the last couple of days, which saw the entire power generation slip to 3,757MW. Data...
Six of the eight Power Distribution Companies (DisCos) which the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had threatened with revocation of licence have complied with the approved...
Angry Ijaw youths on Saturday staged a protest against the Port-Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) due to months of blackout in Bayelsa State especially Yenagoa, the...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said the nationwide blackout experienced in most parts of the country on Wednesday and Thursday following a collapse of...
For tech companies to succeed in Nigeria, there is need to tackle the issues surrounding an enabling environment, poor power supply and access to funds. This...
Electricity generating companies in the country, GenCos, has identified inaccurate date, government interference and inefficiency as a he major factors responsible for the sorry state...
The Republics of Benin and Niger have paid $10.1m as electricity bill to Nigeria to avert being disconnected from their power source in Nigeria after the...
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 controversy surrounding the power sector in the country on Tuesday took a new dimension as investors in the electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) threatened to quit...
Nigerians should be ready for hike in power and petrol prices immediately after the 2019 general elections, economists and investors in the power and petroleum sectors...
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...
President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration has spent $9 billion on develop power, roads and railways infrastructures in the country in the last 2 years. The...
After ensuring system stability for more than two months, the country’s power grid collapsed twice in the past five days. Electricity generation figures obtained from the...
The Federal Government has closed the verification of electricity debts allegedly being owed power distribution companies by its Ministries, Departments and Agencies. It was learnt that...
The Senate committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, on Thursday, turned back the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over his alleged “unpreparedness...
The Nigerian government on Friday signed an agreement worth $5.79 billion with a consortium of three Chinese companies for the construction of the 3,050 megawatts Mambilla...
The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspects for the murder of a 39-year-old victim identified as Okundolor Omoruyi in Egor Local...
Though Nigeria has been listed as one of the priority countries to benefit from United States $10bn-assisted power project for Africa, the USAID-funded Energy Initiative (UEI)...
There is no likelihood that the epileptic power supply in Nigeria will improve in the nearest future, as a fresh row over debts settlement has hit...
For Nigeria to come out of its present epileptic electricity supply, government must allow full privatization of the power sector, stakeholders have stated. Speakers at the...
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...
With the loss of about 600 megawatts (from about 3.5Mws) of electricity in Nigeria, following Tuesday’s attack on Chevron’s gas line by a militant group, the...
Mustapha Bukar who represents President Muhammadu Buhari in the Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, led a debate against Federal Government’s proposed sale of bonds worth N309 billion...
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...
Failure of Nigeria to attend the just concluded wind energy technology workshop may deny it joining the league of countries already benefitting from use of the...
The relative improvement of power supply in Nigeria in the past one month may soon be hampered if the federal government fails to assist the power distribution companies (Discos) to pay$325 million and $1.25 billion debts they owe local and foreign institutions respectively. Most of the loans were secured to...
