Ahead of the commissioning in February of the 188megawatt Geometric Power Limited (GPL) plant in the Osisioma Industrial Area of Aba in Abia State, one of the most influential figures in Nigeria’s power sector has been speaking on how the integrated power project would make a fundamental difference in electricity supply. Ben Caven, reputed to be the only person to …

The Southeast zone of the Electricity Consumers of Nigeria (ECAN) has issued a warning against ‘fly-by-night’ activists, advising the public to be wary of them because “they are not committed to the common good but to their own pockets”. In a statement by ECAN zonal chairman, Engr Joe Ubani, and secretary, Comrade Chris Okpara, in Enugu on Sunday, the association …

Geometric Power Limited, Nigeria’s foremost integrated power firm, has just scored a bull’s eye by going out of its way to reconcile two groups of residents in a housing estate in Aba, the Abia State’s economic nerve centre, where it is based. The crisis in the Silent Spring Estate, comprising at least 52 houses of various sizes, has recorded some …

The two persons who on Sunday night allegedly attacked the facilities of Geometric Power and Aba Power Limited in the Osisioma Industrial Layout, Aba, Abia State, and carted away materials worth millions of Naira have been nabbed. Geometric’s Chief Security Officer, Air Commodore Nicholas Orjiude (rtd.), told media professionals in Aba that the suspects were captured on Monday morning in …