Paying more for darkness
“It is not true that Nigerians do not want to pay more for power but that they have been unhappy with the poor service over the years.
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Renewable energy is electrifying COVID-19 Isolation Centers in Nigeria
The electricity sector has not been left out of this ongoing negative impact resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as it continues to struggle with increased epileptic power supply and increased losses stemming from unpaid electricity debts due to lack of cost-reflective tariffs and decreased consumer spending.
Nigerian households spent N2trn on fuel, electricity in 2019 —NBS
Damilola Shittu – Abuja The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that households in Nigeria spent a total of N2.02trn on fuel and electricity in 2019, The NBS said in a new report on consumption expenditure pattern that household expenditure on fuel/light accounted for 11.57 percent of the total non-food consumption expenditure in 2019….
Damilola Ogunbiyi and Riccardo Puliti: Energy access takes center stage in COVID-19 fight, powering Africa’s recovery
To avoid the worst impacts and help contain the virus worldwide, we must act now to deploy solutions that can provide life-saving energy access to those who need it most.
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…
NUEE gives Power Ministry 14 days to pay disengaged workers
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has issued 14 days ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Power to pay more than 2,000 workers that were disengaged from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria or risk industrial action from electricity workers.The union gave the ultimatum on Wednesday during a media briefing in Lagos. It…
N166bn debt: Electricity firm begins mass disconnection in four South South states
The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) says it has commenced mass disconnection of defaulting customers in the four states it operates. The states are Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and Rivers States. The Manager, Corporate Communications of the company, John Onyi, confirmed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Port…
TCN restores supply after power system collapses
Following the system collapse which occurred at 4.15 pm on Thursday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) today said the national grid had been fully restored. It explained that the collapse occurred while the grid was recovering from an earlier partial system slump, which it described as “system disturbance.” “Full restoration of the grid was…