Category: Electricity

Blackout: Delta court orders disco to pay N20m damages

The Benin Electricity Development Company has been ordered to pay a sum of N20 million...

Discos to fight FG over takeover, restructuring

The receiver/manager’s nominee of Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Company has kicked against the Federal...

Fidelity Bank takes over Kano, Benin, Kaduna Discos

Fidelity Bank Plc has taken over Kano, Benin and Kaduna electricity distribution companies after the...

Consumers kick as DisCos’payment to Gencos drop by 50%

Electricity distribution companies’ payment to generation companies for electricity generation has dropped by 50 per...

92 million Nigerians lack access to electricity – Report

Nigeria has the lowest access to electricity globally, with about 92 million persons out of...

FG suspends N500bn electricity subsidy, tariff surge by 58%

Findings have shown that electricity tariffs increased by 58 per cent after the Federal Government...

FG trains Egyptian, Ghanaian electricity workers

The National Power Training Institute of Nigeria, an agency of the Federal Government, has been...

No increment in electricity tariffs – NERC

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC has clarified that reviews do not automatically translate into...

FG hikes electricity tariff, consumers condemn power sector privatisation

The Federal Government through its Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday officially released different documents...

Power firms owe banks N861.14bn amid electricity crisis

THE debt owed to Nigerian banks by operators in the power sector rose by 12.83...

Blackout hits CBN, army headquarters, others

The headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian Army as well as the...

Discos reject 2,495.3MW in one week – Report

A total of 2,495.3 megawatts of electricity was not utilised nor distributed by power distribution...