Nigeria will sell electricity to four West African countries through its electricity generation businesses (GenCos). Sule Abdulaziz, interim managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said the recent increase in electricity and fuel prices will benefit Nigerians at the long-run. Lai Mohammed...
Some irate Rivers youths have shutdown the Afam transmission station, causing a total blackout in Port Harcourt, the state capital, and its environs. The youths were...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a waiver of the import levy on meters, so that those that do not have meters can be supplied as early...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigerians are willing to pay more for electricity if the services they receive from the distribution companies improves. Osinbajo said this...
The Minister of Information & Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said Nigerians will enjoy 11,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2023. Lai Mohammed said this while speaking...
Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) says the Federal Government has made payment of over N200 billion to the power...
Usman Mohammed, managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says the federal government cannot provide free electricity to Nigerians. The TCN is owned by...
The Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have given assurance of its support for the plan to supply free electricity to all consumers, as one of the palliative...
A bill seeking to ban the importation of generating set has passed first reading in the Nigerian senate. The proposed legislation titled “Generating Set (Prohibition/Ban) Bill...
Fire, on Wednesday, struck the Ayede station of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Ibadan, Oyo State, burning completely Transfomer 1B, 150 mva, 330KV/132 Kv...
Boko Haram insurgents have cut off Maiduguri, Borno state capital, from the national electricity grid. In a statement on Monday, Ndidi Mbah, spokesperson of the Transmission...
The House of representatives committee on power has asked the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the planned increase in electricity tariff. The committee chairman,...
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered stakeholders in the electricity industry to maintain current prices pending the determination of a motion challenging the proposed...
The industrial action by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has been suspended. It will be recalled that the union embarked on strike on Wednesday,...
Five inmates lost their lives, with 10 others sustaining various degrees of injury on Monday, after they were electrocuted by loose electric cable inside the Ikoyi...
A bill criminalising the estimated billing of electricity consumers by distribution companies has been passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday The bill which passed...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present administration has invested N900 billion in the power sector since its assumption of office in 2015. Osinbajo stated this...
Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has said some states in Nigeria that enjoy constant supply of electricity. Speaking on Wednesday on Sunrise...
Electricity generation companies have threatened to shut down power plants across the county if the federal government fails to intervene in the challenges troubling them. In...