The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy,Mr Sunday Akere has called on civil servants in the state to be careful during this period of harmattan by switching off all electrical appliances in government offices before closing each day. Mr Akere [...]
Consumers have continued to groan about poor power supply after the takeover of the assets of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria by private investors. The situation has been exacerbated with the suspension of the Credited Advance Payment for [...]
BY EVEREST AMAEFULE The World Bank will, in the next three years, spend about $1.4bn on the nation’s power industry, especially on transmission infrastructure. The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, stated this in an interview with [...]
Bids for the 10 National Integrated Power Project plants owned by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited will close today (Friday) in Abuja, the Managing Director of the company, Mr. James Olotu, has said. Olotu said on the sidelines [...]
The Federal Government on Tuesday announced its collaboration with Japan to tackle electricity transmission challenges in the country. Both governments agreed to deal with the setbacks in Nigeria’s transmission infrastructure when a delegation from Japan led by the country’s Ambassador [...]
By: FEMI ASU Eagerly awaiting the physical handover of the privatised Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s (PHCN) successor companies by the Federal Government, buyers of the distribution companies (Discos) are considering tapping into off-grid electricity after takeover to provide better services [...]
The full payment of entitlements to 38,000 workers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has commenced. Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, Mr. Benjamin Ezra Dikki disclosed this during the visit of House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation [...]
BY SULAIMON SALAU THE Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to raise the number of Independent Power Plants (IPPs) in the state to five, with a combined capacity of 47.35 Mega Watts (MW) by 2014. Already, the state government has [...]
An Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) sting operation has netted a top official of the Power Holding Companies of Nigeria (PHCN), Engineer Omololu Olusesi Gabriel, who allegedly demanded a bribe of N100,000 from a PHCN customer [...]
By Obinna Chima The Federal Ministry of Finance Wednesday said it had so far paid about N80.97 billion to the Federal Ministry of Power this year. The amount, according to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, [...]
With the short and medium-term programmes mapped out for the power sector in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said Nigerian children soon would no longer depend on generators for electricity supply. [viralpullquote ]With the short and medium-term programmes [...]
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) apologised for the nationwide power outage which occurred on Friday, 24th May, 2013, as a result of the collapse of the transmission grid. [viralpullquote font_size=”24″ ]The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) apologised for the [...]
FG Orders Sack Of 20,000 PHCN Workers – The Federal Government has ordered the retrenchment of no fewer than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of takeover by successful bidders of its assets. The Bureau for [...]
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