Category: Power
COVID-19: REA electrifies four health facilities with solar
By Oke Peter Rural Electrification Agency (REA) on Wednesday handed over two completed solar hybrid mini-grid plants in Abuja and Lagos. Its Managing Director, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, made this known in a press release to journalists. According to the statement, the two other completed solar hybrid mini-grids are slated to be handed over on Thursday…
No decision yet on two-month ‘free electricity’, says Power Minister
The Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, has said that the Federal Government has yet to take a decision to supply free electricity to Nigerians for two months. The minister’s statement came after power distribution companies said that the two-month free electricity which they announced on Wednesday would be paid for by the National Assembly…
Power transmission upgrade: FG assures AfDB of transparent utilisation of funds
The Nigerian government has promised that funds approved and released to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) by the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the upgrade of the national grid will not be embezzled. The Minister of State for Power, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, gave the assurance to Acting Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate and Green…
Power sector loses N117.8bn to gas shortage, others —Report
The investigation has shown that between January 1 and March 6, Nigeria’s power sector lost N117.8bn. Findings showed that the sector kept losing billions of naira daily, as it lost as much as N2bn daily in some days during the period under review. It was also gathered that the least amount lost by the sector…
Discos: We have received no subsidies since 2013 privatisation
Damilola Shittu – Abuja The electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria’s power sector have denied receiving financial subsidies from the federal government since 2013 when the sector was reformed, and privatisation exercise concluded. The Discos through their trade association – the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), condemned a recent claim by the federal government…
Legal dispute delaying Mambilla hydro plant is nearly over —Power minister
Nigeria is set to build the second-largest hydropower plant in Africa after the government settled a legal dispute that was delaying the project, said power minister Sale Mamman. “We have now overcome the major problem stopping this project and it [the legal dispute] is nearly over,” Mamman said in an interview in Abuja, the capital…
Resolving electricity sector logjam
Since November 2013, when the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) successor companies were handed over to their new owners, the perennial challenge of epileptic power supply, which over the years contributed to the frail economic growth recorded by the country has remained unabated. In fact, the expectation of improved and stable supply of electricity,…
Flawed power sector privatisation produced weak DisCos —TCN MD
Usman Mohammed, managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says mistakes made during the privatisation of the power sector produced weak electricity distribution companies (DisCos). The sector was privatised in 2013 with the distribution and generation sub-sectors sold to core investors. Speaking in Lagos on Monday, Mohammed said the laws were adjusted to…
Discos and electricity consumers in 2020
Arguably, after politics and security, the question of service delivery in the Nigerian power sector, a highly sensitive one at that, is the most discussed in the country today. The distribution sector of the electricity value chain is constantly in the news embroiled in one service delivery controversy or the other. Some of the areas…
N2trn Mambilla Power Plant: Buhari approves project delivery committees
Damilola Shittu – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of two committees for the Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project in Taraba State. He approved the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee and Project Delivery Committee for the N2trn power project. The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, is to chair the inter-ministerial steering committee, while the director in…