Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing has said that some cities in Nigeria can now boast of constant power supply. He made the assertion on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. “Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five,…
By Oke Peter As households and businesses continue to lament the nation’s electricity woes, power generation companies in the country have said there is no incentive for them to increase output from their plants. The Gencos said their total generation capacity rose to 7,383.04 megawatts in 2018 from 4,214.32MW in 2013, when the power sector…
Mayowa Okekale – Abuja The Phase One of the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which kicked off via nationwide advertisements in the national dailies and online media on Wednesday, 13 March, 2019 ended midnight yesterday with the closure of the corporation’s application portal. A release today in Abuja by the…
The police in Nigeria have emerged as the most corrupt public institution in the country, according to a new survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The power sector was ranked second in the survey’s corruption index, which examined five public institutions in Nigeria…
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said 10 Distribution Companies (DisCos) reached 66 percent collection efficiency as they collected N438 billion revenue for energy served to consumers in 2018. The Director of Advocacy and Research at ANED, Mr Sunday Oduntan, in a document said the 10 DisCos, excluding Yola DisCo, received energy worth N666.6bn…
By Oke Peter Electricity supply in Delta State has been threatened following the vandalisation of six towers belonging to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, General Manager, Public Affairs at TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said it would take another four weeks before vandalised towers would be put in…
Damilola Shittu – Abuja Gas flaring has continued to take its toll on the Nigerian economy, the environment and the lives of the people of oil-producing communities, as the country lost $987.175 million, about N302.076 billion in 2018, to the continuous flaring by oil and gas firms operating in the petroleum industry. According to data…
Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has attained the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) certification, the first by any refinery on the African continent. Mr. Richard Omale, Managing Director of 3FM Solutions, a Management Consulting Company whose outfit conducted the QMS…
The Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc yesterday said it plans to invest $2.5 billion in the power sector to boost power supply across the country. The investment will be made through its subsidiary, Transcorp Power Limited. Transcorp Power has so far injected about $1 billion in projects with a combined capacity of 700Mw, Chairman, United…
Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights lawyer, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to renew the licences of oil block owners in the country. Sahara Reporters has reported. In a letter addressed to the President, dated March 20, 2019, Falana commended him for taking the decision to revoke the licences of…
