Some residents of Ota-Idiroko, in the Ota area of Ogun State, have been arrested by the police for allegedly stoning to death an official of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), Peter Ayole. The 52-year-old was said to be an auditor at the Abakaliki, Ebonyi State office of the company. The victim, who was said…
Energy Worth with Agency Report The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED)has disclosed that fire from a dump site, near Park One, Port Harcourt gutted its Injection Sub-station that supplies electricity to Diobu area of Port Harcourt. John Onyi, PHED’s Manager for Corporate Communications made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…
By Nick Cunningham The Trump administration has sent a request to Saudi Arabia for it and the rest of OPEC to boost oil production by 1 million barrels per day (mb/d), according to a Bloomberg report. It wasn’t the first time that the U.S. has asked Saudi Arabia to ratchet up supply in an effort…
By Energy Worth The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), on Tuesday, opposed the move by the House of Representatives to criminalise estimated billing by electricity distribution companies in the country. All the Discos, represented by the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), also kicked…
By Energy Worth The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday said it had no plan to dump the Multi-Year Tariff Order framework used in determining the tariff payable by electricity consumers in the country. NERC denied reports that it was planning to quit the MYTO framework, but stated that it planned to review the financial…
By Energy Worth The nation’s power transmission may experience huge hitch as a result of planned show down of labour union in the electricity sector with the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed, over his alleged high-handedness and interference with the affairs of members of Senior Staff Association…
By Energy Worth President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has spent about $9 billion to strengthen investment on power, roads and railway. Buhari said this on Monday while declaring open the 61st meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for Africa (CAF) holding in Abuja. Represented by Boss Mustapha, secretary of the…
By Energy Worth The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has said that the oil firm cannot provide the information being sought by a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on fuel importation and sundry matters. Baru, through an external solicitor, Mr. O. B. Omale of Omale O. B. & Co.,…
Few months ago, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) meter asset provider (MAP) regulation took effect, to close the end-user metering gap and eliminate the practice of ‘estimated billing’ with a few exceptions as envisaged under the said regulation. Estimated billing gives electricity distribution companies (DisCos) discretion to unilaterally determine the estimation of electricity bill…
By Energy Worth The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has discarded the multi-year tariff order (MYTO) in a bid to determine whether consumers are being cheated. This was disclosed by NERC chairman, Professor James Momoh, , made this known on Thursday in Abuja. He said the commission, under his watch, will not adopt the MYTO…
