Senate don ask Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and Electricity Distribution Companies for we country make dem suspend their plan to increase prize electricity cost. Senators ask Electricity Distribution Companies make dem allow Nigerian communities to recover the money wey dem spend take buy electricity transformers before dem go ask them to pay bills. The Senate still tell…
The Nigeria Labour Congress don reject another electricity price increase by forty percent starting from Saturday next week wey be the first day for July. NLC tok say that move so show say the government no carry the people for mind and dem no still consider the suffer suffer wey many Nigerians de face. NLC Presido wey…
Following Monday’s national grid collapse resulting in a blackout across the country, another collapse incident has occurred. The recent collapse was disclosed by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Eko Electricity Distribution Company and the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company on Tuesday evening. Ikeja Disco disclosed that the collapse affected transmission stations and it was already working with regulators…
Lagos and seven other states have been cut off from public power due to a collapse of the National Grid. The incident, which is said to be second time this year, happened yesterday morning, and other states affected are Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, and Imo. The various electricity distribution companies covering the affected states confirmed the…
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians of its readiness to generate twenty-five thousand megawatts of electricity in the country as part of efforts to enhance power-related businesses and other economic activities in the country. The Minister of Power, Mua’azu Sambo disclosed this in Katsina State when he inspected power transmission substation projects including the ongoing windmill project…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved another increase in the cost of electricity, with effect from New Year’s Day, 2021. The Commission approved the increase in electricity tariff based on the inflation rate of fourteen point nine percent, as released by the National Bureau of Statistics. Other factors considered are the exchange rate, US inflation rate,…