Tag: electricity
Four Nigerian states in total darkness as national grid collapses
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has notified electricity consumers in Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and…
FG targets 7,000mw to boost electricity, says Osinbajo
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that the Federal Government was planning to generate 7, 000 megawatts of electricity for…
Electricity Coy records 56 cases of vandalism in Southeast
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) recorded 56 cases of power installation vandalism in the South East between January and…
Ambode begs Lagosians over fuel, power shortage
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has appealed to Lagosians to bear with the government over the lingering shortage of…
Electricity: MDAs, army owe DISCOs N60bn
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) says ministries, departments, agencies and the Nigerian Army are owing the Distribution Companies…
ASUU urges FG to halt privatisation of electricity sector
The Academic Staff of Nigeria Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday in Abuja, called on the Federal Government to stop private ownership…
Electricity tariff hike: Fashola begs consumers
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN, Monday chaired the Second Monthly Meeting of the Power Sector…
New tariff and unholy electricity fixed charge by Terry Odisu
fashola The affable minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, has explained to Nigerians why it is necessary to…
South Africa: Buhari, Xi Jinping to discuss railway, power projects
President Muhammadu Buhari will be in South Africa , Thursday to participate in the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) taking…
620 million Africans including 96mn Nigerians lack access to electricity
At least 620 million Africans lack access to electricity and 96 million of them are from Nigeria, the most populous…
Edo communities hold BEDC hostage
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Hundreds of youths, women and men of Ogbenogbo, Ogbegbuya and Goodwill/Trade Fair communities in Benin City, capital of…
France to invest €130m on Nigerian roads, electricity, water
French President, Francois Hollande has stated that his country will invest 130million euro in rebuilding Nigerian roads as well as…
Don’t charge Nigerians for electricity not consumed, NERC directs Discos
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) to urgently restructure their fixed charges…
Union disrupts activities of S/South Electricity Distribution Companies
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Wednesday disrupted activities at Electricity Distribution Companies in the South South over…
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We must have steady electricity in Nigeria, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday in Abuja that his administration will give the fullest possible attention to boosting power supply…