Energy

German multinational conglomerate company, Siemens, has concluded plans to train electricity Distribution Companies and other electricity stakeholders in the country. Siemens in a statement stated that 11 DISCOs, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and regulators would be trained on all ...

On June 22 and 23, 2020, local and international civil society organisations (CSOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria and Kenya, joined the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a two-day virtual dialogue ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has restated its call on the Federal Government to slash the pump price of fuel to reflect the prevalent slump in the cost of crude oil at the international market. The party insisted that government ...

ELECTRICITY consumers in Calabar, Cross River State have rejected planned increase in tariff, insisting that power supply is still too low to justify any increment. Speaking at the Public Forum for customers of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) ...

The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has said no proposal had been made by the Federal Government to handover the power distribution companies (DisCos) nationwide to Siemens. Mamman had been quoted saying the Federal Government had submitted a proposal to ...

Incensed by the energy crisis nationwide, the House of Representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on the power sector. To show seriousness, the lower chamber of the National Assembly mandated its Committee on Power ...

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has advanced reasons why Nigeria may continue to suffer power outages, urging the Federal Government to rescue the power sector and remedy the epileptic electricity supply in the country. Managing Director of TCN, Usman ...

The Pro-Unity social service group, Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) has mobilised electricity consumers in the South East to protest “unwholesome activities” of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC). In Awka, Anambra State capital, where the group carried out its mobilisation ...

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has denied allegation that its swap of the standalone meters in its network with smart meters was to take its customers back to estimated billing. No fewer than 40,000 customers of the electricity distribution company ...

Nigeria and companies that were affiliated to the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) at Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State may have lost over N109.2b to the closure and subsequent gas shut-in that followed. The closure of ALSCON is said ...