Clinical students of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine on Monday laid siege to the visit of Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, to the University College Hospital (UCH), to protest a power outage. The students expressed their grievances, saying they were tired of the over 100-day power outage at UCH. The Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, and the IBEDC …

In furtherance of President Bola Tinubu‘s Renewed Hope Agenda to provide adequate, reliable, and quality electricity to businesses and households in the country, the Federal Government on Thursday commissioned a 300KWp Solar PV pilot project in Kainji, Niger State. While commissioning the project, the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu said the project will primarily increase power generation capacity, lower …

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu has assured that the first batch of mega transformers under the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) would arrive by September. In a statement by his Media Adviser, Isa Sanusi on Saturday, Aliyu said the transformers had passed the factory acceptance test at the Siemens’ transformers factory in Trento, Italy. In December 2021, the Federal Executive …

The Minister of Power, Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu has said that the current power situation in the country is caused mainly by shortage of gas. Briefing State House correspondents after a hybrid meeting of the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, the Minister disclosed that efforts were being made to address the situation, adding that Nigeria had the capacity of 8,000Mw on …