Nigeria, one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, has positioned itself to benefit from the N200billion in new investment this year , as focus of oil producers globally shifts to deep water projects which are envisaged to attract more investment. Nigeria has big plans to diversify its oil operations by developing new projects outside the Niger […]
The Federal Government says it has commissioned several sites in the six geopolitical zones of the country toward actualising its promise of electrifying five million homes with solar energy by 2023. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said this while declaring open this year’s Seplat Energy Summit in Abuja. Osinbajo who was represented by the Minister of […]
Kaduna State on Sunday was thrown into total blackout ahead of the five-day warning strike directed by the Nigeria Labour Congress to commence from midnight of Sunday in the state. The total blackout followed a warning by the National Union of Electricity Employees, an affiliate of the NLC, directing its workers to join the strike […]
The Ado Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State has sealed off the headquarters of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) over alleged N15 million debt. Justifying the action, the Council Chairperson, Mrs. Omotunde Fajuyi, told newsmen that the decision to seal the office was necessitated by the company’s inability to pay the backlog of […]
The Minister of Power, Engineer Sale Mamman has apologised to Nigerians over the recent power outage experienced across the country. In a statement released on Thursday, Mamman said he regrets the situation and difficulty it has brought to Nigerians. According to Mamman, the problem was caused by the breakdown of some National Integrated Power Plants […]
The State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Barrister Temilolu Seun Ashamu, stated this while inspecting the completed Awe Energy facility at the Rural Community Development Centre in Oyo town, the 132/133/11kva substation also in Oyo town and the ongoing light-up project in Oyo and Ibadan, the State capital. Oyo State government has reiterated its […]
The federal government has begun the replacement of electricity supply equipment destroyed by insurgents in Maiduguri, Borno State, on January 17, 2021. Maiduguri and the surrounding communities were thrown into total darkness after suspected members of the Boko Haram sect attacked an electricity tower supplying power to the city and disconnecting it from the national […]
