The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has released new guidelines mandating a digitised, transparent, and accountable framework for electricity revenue collection. The new regulatory directive, titled Guidelines on Registration and Engagement of Third-Party Collection Service Providers, was released on Wednesday and signed by the NERC chairman, Sanusi Garba. The new regulatory directive, which takes effect immediately, is anchored on the powers …

The Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu has called on the National Assembly to enact stricter legislation aimed at safeguarding Nigeria’s power infrastructure from acts of vandalism. At a two-day retreat, organised over the weekend by the Senate Committee on Power, Adelabu said that vandalism should not be treated as a civil offence but a criminal issue, adding that power …

The outgoing Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta, Dr Adedamola Dada, said the hospital had been paying N20 million monthly electricity bill for just three hours of daily public power supply. According to him, this extraordinary expense has led to the consumption of 80,000 litres of diesel on a monthly basis to ensure uninterrupted supply of power in …

The Federal Government has approved two major energy projects in Oyo State aimed at fortifying the national grid and addressing persistent power challenges. The decisions, ratified during Monday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, include reviving and concessioning the decades-old Ikere Gorge Hydropower Plant and constructing a high-capacity new substation in Ibadan, signaling a push to modernise infrastructure and boost electricity access. …

In Nigeria, few issues stir as much raw emotion as the price and quality of electricity. Everywhere across the length and breadth of the country electricity supply is unstable. Over the years, successive governments have insisted that Nigerians are underpaying for electricity. The solution? Increase the tariff under the guise of reflective pricing. Yet, month after month, citizens grope in …

Several areas in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have been thrown into darkness for days. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), confirmed this in three separate outage statements released on its X handle on Thursday and Friday. The disco blamed the blackout on technical fault affecting the feeders serving the concerned locations. ‘We regret to inform you that the …

Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu has unveiled an urgent 10-year rescue plan to revive the manpower shortage in the electricity sector, mandating the training of not less than 1,200 electrical engineers within the next decade and prioritizing local contractors under a strict ‘Nigeria First’ procurement policy. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the management retreat of the Ministry of Power …

President Bola Tinubu is expected to meet with the leadership of Nigeria’s power-generating companies as part of an emergency effort to address the N4 trillion debt threatening to cripple the country’s electricity supply chain. The move follows a high-level meeting on Tuesday between the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and chairmen of GenCos in Abuja, amid mounting fears of a …

Governors yesterday resolved to scrutinise a proposal intended to encourage more private sector participation in the electricity sector. The resolution was taken at a meeting by the governors’ umbrella body – Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in Abuja. It was contained in a communiqué by NGF Chairman/Kwara State Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulkRahman and read by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma. The communiqué …

Tragedy struck the University of Ilesa, Osun State, on Friday as a 100-level student, Gbolahan Ojolo, reportedly died from electrocution, allegedly triggered by a lightning strike in his hall of residence. Ojolo, a student of the Department of Business Administration, was said to have been playing a game on his mobile phone while it was charging when the lightning struck …