Tag: Power
Fashola gets N433.4bn for Power, Works and Housing
fashola The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja earmarked N433.4 billion in the 2016 budget for its services in the…
Fashola sets agenda for power, housing, road infrastructure in 2016
Following intensive on-going ministerial briefings, meetings with parastatals and agencies as well as critical concerns in the sectors under the…
How I will solve power, roads, housing problems – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing has outlined how he intends to tackle the problem of power, roads…
Onu to launch book on how APC rose to power
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, stalwart of All Progressives Congress (APC), will on Dec. 7, launch a book about the party and…
Fashola gets Power, Works and Housing, Amaechi Transport
President Muhammadu Buhari has distributed portfolios to his 36 ministers, with former Lagos State goevrnor, Babatunde Fashola, given the enlarged…
FG to distribute 6,000mw of power by 2016 – Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said the Federal Government had plans to distribute 6,000 megawatts of electricity in…
Pope condemns ‘boundless thirst’ for wealth, power
Reuters – Pope Francis, a day after addressing the United Nations in New York, travels on Saturday to Philadelphia, the…
Power, key to prosperity in Nigeria – IFC
The World Bank has said that constant power supply will ensure overall prosperity and development for Nigeria. Speaking at a…
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Secret behind improved power supply in Nigeria
If you have been wondering what magic wand President Muhammadu Buhari has deployed in the Nigerian power sector that has…
Power generation to hit 5,000mw by December
The National Economic Council (NEC) said on Thursday that power generation in Nigeria will reach 5,000 megawatts by December, noting…
Child sacrifice for wealth, power, expected to rise in Uganda
Luweero (Uganda) (AFP) – Kanani and Sylvia, brother and sister aged nine and eight, were grazing the family cattle in…
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Power distribution historically pathetic, down to 727MW
It has only gotten worse, not better for Nigeria as electricity output crashed to an all time, historic low of…
Nigeria has potential to generate domestic power, says Jonathan
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that the country has the potential to generate enough power for the domestic…
Ogun APGA, PDP Guber Candidates Commend Amosun on Security
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ogun state, Prof David Bamgbose has given…
Nigeria can transmit power from 10 new sub-stations, says Sambo
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Wednesday insisted that Nigeria had the capacity to transmit additional power being generated by the…
FG injects 220mw of power to national grid
The Minister of power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, said on Saturday that the 220 megawatts of electricity added to the Egbin…
Nigerian power sector to bag WAPIC award
The West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC) on Monday announced the nomination of Ughelli Power, Geometric Power and Clarke Energy…
Jonathan inaugurates power sector apprenticeship scheme
President Goodlick Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja inaugurated the National Power Apprenticeship Scheme (NAPSAS), urging participants in the scheme to…
Jonathan’s promise on power 4 years ago
Speaking with United Nations diplomats on Monday, 31st January 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Goodluck Jonathan made this promise:…
Zimbabwe signs $1.5bn power deal with China
Energy-starved Zimbabwe signed a $1.5 billion (1.2-billion-euro) deal with China’s Sinohydro on Friday for a project to boost power generation…
Elumelu Leads Experts To Address Power Challenges
Renown business leader and investment guru Tony Elumelu is heading up a high-level list of power experts who will address…
40 dead, millions without power in Philippine typhoon
Millions of people in the Philippines endured a second sweltering day without power on Thursday after a ferocious typhoon paralysed…
Power For Power’s Sake
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Politics can be described as the pursuit of political power and competition for political power. According to…
Intoxication Of Power
By Akin Owolabi Much heed has been taken of Lord Acton’s assertion of 1887 that: power tends to corrupt and…
Fasehun Can Kill, Destroy For Power, Money And Women
Gani Adams is the National Coordinator, Oodua People’s Congress. In this interview with FOLARIN ADEMOSU, he characterises Dr. Frederick Fasehun,…
Winding Down History: Religion And Nation, Power And Freedom
By Wole Soyinka Today’s event may yet make a Christian out of me – since, from my admittedly imperfect recollection…
Fuel Subsidy Report: UAD Rallies Nigerians Against Government
The United Action for Democracy (UAD) this morning took to the streets to warn the Federal Government against sweeping the…
Why Journalists Are Better Than Lawyers, Doctors —Simon Ateba
I am discombobulated and even flabbergasted that our society today seems to give a relatively greater respect to lawyers, doctors…
Al-Mustapha, Sofolahan Deserve To Die —Lawyers, Activists
Nigerians, especially human rights activists and lawyers have reacted to the death sentence passed on Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Mr.…
Anambra Indigenes Plan Protest
Worried by the epileptic power supply being experienced in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, indigenes have vowed to storm the…