•Workers clear a road from fallen trees after the passing of Storm Goretti in France, today Fierce winds battered France and Britain today as storms barrelled through northern Europe, snarling train travel, shutting schools and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes in plunging winter temperatures. Forecasters from Britain to Germany...
Togo, Niger, and Benin owe Nigeria $17.8m, an equivalent of over N25 billion at the current exchange rate, for electricity supplied under bilateral arrangements, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. In its Third Quarter 2025 report, NERC disclosed that the three international customers were invoiced a total of $18.69m by th...
•Mustafa Abdullahi As Nigeria grapples with persistent energy challenges despite its vast renewable potential, the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) says it is stepping up efforts to drive a sustainable energy transition to renewable options. In this interview, the commission’s Director-General Mustafa Abdullahi outlined efforts to boost ren...
•NLC Affiliate unions of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday in Kano urged the federal government to reverse the privatisation of the electricity and water sectors for better performance. The top officials of unions that included National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service T...
•Power transmission line Over a year after the Nigerian government hiked electricity tariffs for Band A customers, users across the country have continued to express frustration over what they describe as exorbitant charges for power supply that is neither reliable nor consistent. Many of the affected consumers, who spoke with our corresponden...
•Power transmission line A Permanent Secretary in the Gombe State Civil Service and four other people were electrocuted, while 13 others sustained varying degrees of injuries, following a high-voltage surge of electricity supply in the early hours of yesterday. Muhammad Yusuf Kulani was the Permanent Secretary at the state’s Ministry of Specia...
•Adebayo and Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described as “a joke too far” the Power Minister, Adebayo Adelabu’s claim that 150 million Nigerians now enjoy “adequate electricity” supply of 5,500 megawatts. In a statement released by the union’s President, Joe Ajaero, yesterday, the union said the minister’s statement was “outrageo...
Residents of Iju and Ishaga in Lagos State are breathing a sigh of relief after noticing a significant improvement in electricity supply just before a planned protest against Ikeja Electric Monday this week. The “Light Up Iju/Ishaga” protest was organised in response to what residents say has been an ongoing and unacceptable level of power [&h...
Power generation companies, GenCos, on Monday warned that power plants across the country were facing imminent shutdown due to a huge N4 trillion debt owed by the federal government. In a statement issued by the Board of Trustee Chairman of the Association Power Generation Companies, APGC, Col. Sani Bello, Gencos said they were currently owed ...
•Blackout The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, today, disclosed that there are over 20,000 communities across the country without electricity supply. The Managing Director, REA, Mr Abba Abubakar Aliyu who disclosed this at the inauguration of two mini-grid projects in Bakin Ciyawa and Kwande communities, Qua’an Pan LGA, Plateau State, said t...
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