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...
Nigerians are in for another tough year after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved a new increase in electricity tariff with effect from January 1....
Nigeria’s hydropower plants have been increased to four after the connection of a new plant to the national grid. Situated in Gombe State, the Dadin Kowa...
The Nigerian government is mulling supplying electricity to Chad, its West African neighbour, after a recent request by the country. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)...
Nigeria requires an outlay of $2 billion to provide electricity to 80 million people or roughly 39% of its population, who do not have access to power,...
Landlords with outstanding bills cannot transfer the payment obligation to tenants just renting their properties, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said Tuesday. The NERC made...
A Federal Government delegation is set to meet with the organised private labour and civil society groups in a bid to avert the planned nationwide over...
Manufacturers in Nigeria say 38% of their operating costs goes to generating alternative electricity just as their stockpile of unsold goods rocketed to a historic high...
The recent hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariff saw Nigerians took to the streets in different states on Tuesday, September 8, to protest...
The Nigerian government said it has spent N10.413 trillion on fuel subsidy in the last 13 years (2006-2019). The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday expressed his support for the Federal Government’s decision to hike electricity tariff and fuel pump price. In a chat...
The Presidency has explained why despite the fact that power generated in Nigeria is insufficient, the country still distributes electricity to Togo, Niger and Benin. The...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Sunday Nigerians were willing to pay for electricity if the services they received from the distribution companies improved. Osinbajo, who...
Nigeria’s West African neighbours – Togo, Benin and Niger – received a total invoice of N32.04 billion for the electricity supplied to them by the country...
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 Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said on Saturday at least 62.3 percent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at...
Dearth of gas supply to Nigeria’s largest power plant, Egbin and 10 others were responsible for low electricity generation at the facilities on Monday. Other plants,...
Electricity consumers in the country are to enjoy two months of free supply, the umbrella body of power distribution companies, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED)...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Friday released guidelines for power industry operations during the coronavirus crisis, instructing stakeholders to maintain continuity of service as long...
Nigeria’s House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has regretted the failure of Nigerian Government to make life comfortable for Nigerians during the stay-at-home order The epileptic...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to empower states to control electricity supply, and declaration of public holidays. The...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that the accumulated bill of the power supplied by Nigeria to its West African neighbours – Benin, Togo...
Gas flaring activities among oil and gas firms cost Nigeria N521.9 billion (around $1.7 billion) in 2019, the latest statistics by the National Oil Spill Detection...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said on Thursday that Nigerians have to pay more for electricity, if they are to enjoy the benefits of liberalisation...
The Federal Government on Monday said the Managing Directors of the Rural Electrification Agency and the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company were sacked because they belonged...
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said on Monday that Nigeria’s electricity tariff would remain in place till April 1. The Executive Director of ANED,...
Workers in the nation’s power sector under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have suspended their strike action. The development was made...
Nigeria’s power generation and distribution companies have warned of the possibility of a blackout all over the country, if the Federal Government fails to grant their...
There are possibilities that electricity tariffs might escalate to new heights according to Sale Maman, the Power Minister. He said this on a phone-in radio programme...
The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED) has said Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) will need N8.7 billion to comply with the remittance order by the Nigerian...
That the current state of electricity supply in the country is a major killjoy for businesses is not, in anyway, an overstatement. Year on year, after a struggle to...
A nation that cannot control its energy sources can’t control its future- Barack Obama, the Audacity of Hope. Just the way the Federal Government came up...
There are indications that Nigerians may have to pay more for electricity as the federal government embarks on plans to boost the operations of electricity Distribution...
Not less than 36 persons have been arrested by the Police in Kano state for attempting to destroy Kano Electricity Distribution Company facilities at Zangon Dakata...
Plan by members of the Trade Union Congress to picket the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) may plunge the country into total darkness. This is even...
There is palpable fear that total blackout may ensue in the country, especially as the national electricity grid collapsed again on Thursday morning at 5:30 am....
The President of Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Adekunle Mokuolu, has called for an upward review of electricity tariff in the country. Mokuolu, who spoke memorial...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has said that manufacturers in the country spent a total of N246.38 billion to generate their own electricity between 2016...
The Presidency has earmarked N274.7 million for electricity and another N65 million on animals in this year’s budget. A breakdown of the federal estimates for 2019,...
Electricity generation companies (Gencos) have accused the Nigerian Government of taking power from them and selling to countries in the West African region under the West...
Obiageli Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has promised to provide 24-hour power supply if voted into office in 2019. In a...
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...
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...
Indications have emerged that there might be a significant reduction in the supply of power to electricity consumers in the country as electricity generated into the...
An investigation by THISDAY on the geographical spread of Nigeria’s electricity generation sources has shown that out of the 36 states in the country and the...
The Federal Government on Thursday directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to revert to the former situation where power consumers were allowed to purchase meters...
The much famed N701.9 billion Payment Assurance Fund (PAF) meant to provide more liquidity for Generation Companies (GenCos) to pay for gas and increase electricity supply,...
Until electricity consumers settle an outstanding N80.6 billion debts owed the 11 power distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria, there may be no end to irregular power...
The power distribution companies may have carried out their threat to embark on massive disconnection of all government ministries, agencies and department owing them electricity bill....
It appears there is gradual improvement and stabilisation in Nigeria electricity generation as Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Wednesday, wheeled out about 4,009 megawatts of...