•An electricity worker At least 59 electricity workers died in the line of duty between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. A report by the commission confirmed that 23 of the workers lost their lives in 55 accidents in the first quarter of […]
•Tinubu There are indications that Nigeria’s frequent electricity system collapse will continue because of 10 deep-seated problems facing the power sector and the inability of the government and other stakeholders to find lasting solutions to them in the short term. Checks by our correspondent, yesterday, identified the reasons to include obso...
•Students protest The students of the University of Ibadan have staged a protest to express their grievances over the schedule of 10 hours of electricity supply on campus and a hike in tuition. The protest started in the late hours of yesterday and has continued today with the students bearing placards at the front of […]
Universities in the country are groaning under the yoke of high tariffs thrust on them by electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, which may see the 10 with the highest budgets spending over N75 billion on electricity this year. The 10 universities have a combined budget of N247.6 billion for 2024, reports Vanguard. Checks by our correspond...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, and Organised Private Sector, yesterday faulted the latest hike in the electricity tariff payable by customers in the Band A Category. Following the depreciation of the naira against the United States dollar, and inflation, among other factors, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission ag...
Kaduna and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc have announced an upward review of the electricity tariff for Band A customers. The Acting Managing Director, IBEDC, Francis Agoha, stated that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved the tariff increase from N206.80/kWh to N209.50/kWh for users in the category. Accordi...
The Guild of Medical Directors of Nigeria has raised the alarm that the hike in electricity tariff is choking private hospitals with some of them closing shop. The Guild disclosed that no fewer than eight private hospitals in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, recently shut down over the high cost of electricity supply and insecurity, [&helli...
•Governor Inuwa Yahaya The Gombe State Government has suspended the village head of Garin Majidadi in Akko Local Government Area, Mohammed Majidadi, over alleged theft. It also suspended the Councillor representing Kumo East Ward, Abdullahi M. Panda, reports Channels TV. Announcing this in a statement yesterday, the Secretary to the State Gove...
The federal government, through The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, today, approved N21 billion for electricity distribution companies, DisCos, to procure meters for customers. The amount which will come from the Meter Acquisition Fund, MAF, would enable the utilities to address the huge metering gap in the Nigerian Electrici...
A federal high court in Kano has granted an interim order restraining the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from implementing a hike in electricity tariff for Band A customers in the state. The court directed Kano Electricity Distribution Plc to discontinue the implementation of tariff increased from N76.54/Kwh to N225/Kwh, rep...
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