The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced that some parts of Lagos will on Tuesday witness four hours of blackout (power outage) Ndidi Mbah, spokesman of the company, in a statement said it will carry out an annual maintenance of its equipment at the Itire 132KV Transmission Sub-station in Lagos today (Tuesday) for four […]
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World Bank has approved a 486 million dollars credit facility to Nigeria for electricity grid improvements, the lender said on Friday. “The investments under the Nigeria Electricity Transmission Project will increase the power transfer capacity of the transmission network and enable distribution companies to supply consumers with additional power,” the World Bank said. Nigeria’s power […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will establish 4,600 Mega Watts power plants in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano. A statement in Abuja by the NNPC spokesman, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, said this would be done through the recently-approved contract for the construction of Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project, dubbed AKK Pipeline. According to the statement, […]
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Jubilation erupted in Omu-Aran, Kwara, on Thursday as electricity supply to Irepodun Local Government Secretariat was restored after three years outage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the council’s electricity supply was disconnected by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) in 2014 over indebtedness. The restoration of electricity to the secretariat at about noon […]
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The Nigerian Government on Monday said it is expecting additional 1,119 Mega Watts from generating plants that will go on stream next year. At the moment the country generates about 7,000 Megawatts.. The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this at the 22nd monthly meeting of stakeholders in the power sector […]
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The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said payment of high electricity tariffs is inevitable for Nigerian electricity users. Prof. Osinbajo said this while speaking at the Sixth Presidential Business Forum held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The vice president’s media aide, Laolu Akande, quoted Mr. Osinbajo as […]
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state, has said plans are at advanced stages to generate constant electricity for residents of the state in 2018. The governor said the state government had already devised strategies to short-circuit power generation, transmission and distribution to ensure there was “24/7 power supply to residents.” Ambode spoke at a recent […]
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria on Friday announced that Nigeria’s electricity grid has recorded a total system collapse. It was however, stated that restoration of the grid was at an advanced stage and explained that the total collapse was due to tripping of three generator units at Egbin power generation station. The daily report on […]
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Twenty-eight electricity generating companies in Nigeria have released an average of 3,632MW/hour of power on Feb. 13, according to the website of the Nigerian Electricity Supply. The report, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, however, indicated that the electricity sector lost an estimated N817 million on February 13 due to constraints of […]
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says that the nation’s power generation improved slightly to 3,528.90 megawatts on Feb. 1 from 2,662 megawatts on Jan. 22. This figure was disclosed on the website of the Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO), a sub-agency of the TCN, in its daily forecast on power generation in Lagos on […]
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