Audu Yusuf just moved to a new three bedroom flat in the Aso C community of Nasarawa State, about 10 minutes away from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He got an electrician said to be among the best in the…
Thousands of Abuja residents live under high tension power lines. To these people, electricity sparks in a ‘normal’ occurrence. Some of the residents said though there are sparks from the power line, nobody had died from electrocution in their areas…
Six years ago, the Federal Government unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and handed over 18 utility firms to private investors. Government raked in $2.5 billion (about N916.575bn) from the transaction involving six Generation Companies (GenCos) and 11…
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, a tea seller, Aliyu Umar (27), began his day by preparing a charcoal fire with which he would cook noodles, fry eggs and brew tea for his early morning customers at his makeshift shop, a…
Residents of various rural communities in Gombe and seven other states have raised concerns over the non-connection and the lack of maintenance of rural electricity projects worth N1billion. Daily Trust on Sunday obtained a document from the Rural Electrification Agency…
Adamu Ibrahim operates a provision shop in Durumi-Mpape, near Maitama in Abuja. His shop was one of those that benefited from free solar power in 2014 when Operation Light Up Rural Nigeria (OLRN) came up. Three years after, Ibrahim said…
Despite spending N1.5trillion on the country’s power sector in the last two years, the Federal Government yesterday said it is in the process of investing a fresh $3 billion (N915bn) World Bank loan into the sector. The Minister of Finance,…
The 3050 megawatts (MW) Mambilla hydropower project in Taraba State, with a contract cost of N2.1 trillion is yet to begin, over 40 years after it was initiated, Daily Trust investigation revealed. The project has also been delayed two years…
The Nigerian government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country remained in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into the sinkhole through capital releases, but homes and…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) recently notified eight power distribution companies (DisCos) on its intent to cancel their licences in 60 days after they accumulated N30.1 billion energy invoice debts for July 2019. The Federal Government had unbundled the…
