The Senate has advanced the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2025, to second reading in a bid to salvage Nigeria’s troubled power sector from imminent collapse. Sponsored by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe…
The Siemens gas deal between Nigeria and Germany will lead to improved electricity supply to Nigerians in the first half of 2024, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Amb Maitama Tuggar.…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa named a new minister to tackle a debilitating electricity crisis in a mini-cabinet shake-up a year ahead of the next general election. Ramaphosa last month…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to reverse the unlawful, unjust, and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff, and…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has promised to copy what was done in South Africa and Egypt to tackle the issue of power generation and distribution…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to immediately reverse what has been described as the unlawful, unjust and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff, which reportedly occurred in December 2022. This…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that the goal to increase electricity generation to 25,000 Megawatts in six years is on course. He made the comment on Monday in Abuja when…
Businesses and homes were again left without power supply for several hours yesterday after Nigeria’s national grid collapsed again, the 7th time this year. The last national system collapse was…