New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through estimated billing despite a policy stating that all new connections must be accompanied by meter, an investigation by Daily Trust revealed. The Connection and Disconnection Procedures…
In March this year, the Federal Government said it was set to commission the 10 Megawatts to wind farm sited at Lambar Rimi area of Katsina State. The Minister of Power, Engr Sale Mamman, who announced the development via a…
The multi-billion naira Independent Power Plant (IPP) project in Kano State, which was said to have reached 95 percent completion in July 2020 and scheduled to be commissioned in October of the same year, is yet to see the light…
Nigerians have continued to pay for the power supply but have not seen enough of that in the past five years, with electricity tariff rising as economic indices worsen. Although the power sector was privatized on November 1, 2013, to…
Residents of Dadin-Kowa, the host community of a hydropower plant, have expressed displeasure over the delay in inaugurating the project, over a year after its completion. The power plant, which was initiated in 1959 and located in Gombe State to…
There are indications that Transcorp Power Consortium, one of the leading power generating companies in Nigeria may lose its bid to acquire majority stake in the newest and biggest power generating plants recently built by the federal government.
Power supply in Niger State has generated a lot of controversy in the last few years, leading to series of protests and threats to shut down all the hydro power stations in the state. Read more :
Electricity consumers have kicked against the resumption of tariff hike by Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos), which comes into effect on Sunday. They said after two months of high-level discussions occasioned by the suspension of the tariff hike, they were still…
The 11 power Distribution Companies (DisCos) could not deliver 33,958.16 megawatts hour (MWh) of energy made available for evacuation by the Generation Companies (GenCos) within one month; from September 1, 2020, when the DisCos hiked electricity tariff by over 80…
Nigerians are outraged over Monday’s 50 percent unceremonious hike in the price of electricity, saying it is an additional burden on them. Read more :
