POWER

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), says it has signed a power supply agreement with Kaida Community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Mr Emmanuel Ojor, Head, Communication and Public Relations, NDPHC said in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the agreement was in fulfillment of NDPHC corporate social responsibility. According to him, Kaida is a small community ...

The Ministry of Power said on Saturday the latest collapse of the national grid was due to vandalism on a transmission tower. The grid collapsed on Friday for the third time in as many weeks, plunging parts of the country into darkness. The Ministry earlier on Saturday said it was investigating the cause. “Further to our earlier press release, we ...

The Federal government on Saturday said the Nigerian Regulatory Commission and the System Operator were currently investigating causes of the frequent power grid collapse leading to widespread blackout across the country. The national electricity grid collapsed again on Friday evening, making it the third time in the space of one month. Some power distribution companies had confirmed the development in ...

Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command Onne Port has raised a total of N58.059 billion in the first quarter of 2022. Ifeoma Onuigbo Ojekwu, Customs Public Relations Officer, Area ll Command, Onne Port said in a statement that the money received is N19.182 billion higher than N38.877 billion collected within the first three months of 2021 which shows a 49.3 ...

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, has said that growth in the Renewables and Energy Efficiency in Nigeria is Commendable. The Minister says that renewable energy and energy efficiency sector has continued to grow rapidly thereby heightening the need for a skilled workforce to support it. The Minister spoke yesterday at the “Energise – First Career Fair for the Clean ...

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Associations – Alliance (REEEA-A), EU and German Government are today, April 5th hosting First Career Fair On Clean Energy. The first of its kind, designed to facilitate the matching of competences with available opportunities within Nigeria’s clean energy sector. The career fair – ENERGIZE! – which is beig organised and implemented in collaboration with ...

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will no longer use the International Energy Agency (IEA) as a source of data on its members’ crude output, after a vote of the producer bloc’s ministers. Relations between the two bodies have rapidly deteriorated recently over climate policies and energy supplies, sources told S&P Global Commodity Insights. But OPEC will still use ...

Some experts on power have urged the Federal Government to urgently review privatisation of the power sector as part of efforts to address challenges in the sector. The experts said on Sunday in Abuja that eight years after privatisation of the sector, there was the need to review the performance of the investors. Mr Kunle Olubiyo, the President, Nigeria Consumer ...

The Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP) embarks on two-day talkshop at increasing access to electricity in rural and peri-urban communities in Nigeria using sustainable business models. The talkshop will also consider ways of bridging the skill gap in the rapidly growing Nigerian Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Sector (RE/EE) sector. The NESP is a technical assistance programme, co-funded by the ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated unit one turbine out of the four units turbines of the 700 Megawatts (MW) Zungeru hydro-electric power project in Wushishi area of Niger. Mr Goddy Agba, Minister of State for Power, disclosed this in Zungeru at the inauguration in company of Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger. “It is my pleasure to address you all ...