•Blackout Fresh concerns have emerged over the health of Nigeria’s naÂtional electricity grid following last week’s major disturbance on the Lagos transmission corridor, with power sector experts warnÂing that the country’s transmisÂsion infrastructure is dangerousÂly overstretched, underfunded and increasingly vulnerable to collapse. The alar...
•Blackout The Transmission Commission of Nigeria (TCN) has announced electricity disruption in parts of Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, and Yobe states, as well as Gazaoua in the Niger Republic. The spokesperson of TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement today. The outage is due to planned maintenance at Kumbotos’ 330 kilovolt transmissi...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved a special compensation package for eligible Band A electricity customers affected by poor power supply arising from generation constraints on the national grid between February and March 2026. In a public notice issued on its social media handles yesterday, the Commission said the dir...
•Blackout Electricity sector experts have raised fresh concerns over persistent inefficienÂcies, weak governance, and entrenched corruption undermining Nigeria’s powÂer industry, more than a decade after its privatisation. Speaking on the state of the sector, President of the Nigeria Consumer ProÂtection Network, Kunle Kola Olubiyo, said the i...
Nigeria’s electricity industry continues to grapple with serious safety concerns, with no fewer than 192 people either killed or injured in power-related incidents in 2025. Data released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission shows that while there was a modest decline in overall casualties compared to the previous year, the numbers...
•Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu Two weeks after Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, assured citizens of imminent relief from persistent outages, a cross-country check suggests that for many households and businesses, the reality has barely changed. This came as recent announcement by President Bola Tinubu of the approval of N3.3 trillio...
Nigeria’s power sector is once again under scrutiny following the federal government’s approval of over N3.3 trillion to clear the accumulated debts under the Presidential Power Sector Financial Reforms Programme. This is even as persistent outages, grid instability and rising tariffs continue to frustrate households and businesses across the ...
•Blackout Power generation in Nigeria remains below expectations two weeks after the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, assured citizens of improved electricity supply, as ongoing gas shortages, load rejection, and infrastructure challenges continue to strain the national grid, reports The PUNCH. Power generation in Nigeria remains below expe...
•Blackout When the federal government announced a sudden increase in electricity tariffs for Band A customers in April 2024, it was a conviction that raising their tariffs would ensure a minimum of 20 hours of electricity, jettisoning alternative power sources like generators and preventing the collapse of the electricity sector, which was wal...
•Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu The federal government has apologised to Nigerians over power outages but is promising improvements across the country in the coming days. Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, made the promise yesterday during a press conference on his achievements in the last three years. “I want to apologise to Ni...
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