No fewer than five electricity transmission towers collapsed on Friday in Lagos State. This follows an inferno caused by a vandalized pipeline along Isheri Olofin, off Igando – LASU expressway of the state. It could be understood that the fire caused massive damage to a 330kV Ikeja-West Akangba transmission line 1 and burnt off a […]
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says that the federal government has approved N600billion for electricity market to boost power supply. Edmund Ejie, the Market Operator of TCN said this on Wednesday in Abuja, at the 3rd quarter Participants and Stakeholders Interactive forum for 2019. The forum has as its theme: “Rules Compliance for Nigerian […]
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says the epileptic power supply which started over 24 hours ago in parts of the country is due to a gas pipeline rupture. The rupture, TCN said, resulted in the shut down of six power stations. In a statement on Sunday, Ndidi Mbah, TCN spokesperson, said the sharp drop […]
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Babatunde Raji Fashola, minster of power, work and housing has said that Nigeria’s power generation as at September 2017 has increased up to 7001 megawatts with transmission up to 6,700 megawatts and distribution rising to 4,600 megawatts. Fashola disclosed this at the executive session of the National Council on Power meeting said this increase can, […]
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Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing said on Thursday that 340 megawatts of electricity would be added to the national grid on or before December. Mr. Fashola said this during his inspection tour of Afam Power Plant in Oyibo local government area of Rivers as part of Federal Government Power Sector Recovery […]
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In a statement released on Monday by Saidu Mohammed, chief operating officer, gas and power, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), it was disclosed that that the corporation will generate about 4,000 megawatts of power in the next 10 years to boost power supply in the country. Mohammed said the corporation would achieve this […]
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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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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that that the nation’s power generation capacity dropped slightly from 3,959 megawatts from Jan. 4, to 3,751.90 megawatts on Jan. 12, due to dearth of gas. The Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO) website, a sub agency of TCN, disclosed the figure on its daily forecast website on power […]
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Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI, operational report for Jan. 3, said the power sector hit a peak generation of 4,959 megawatts as against 3,321 megawatts recorded on Dec. 2.On Wednesday, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wheeled out about 3,959 megawatts of electricity to the 11 distribution companies as the country’s power supply gradually stabilised. The […]
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