power sector

Ebrima Faal, the Country Director, African Development Bank (AfDB), said that the bank would focus mostly on power sector in 2018. Faal said this during an interaction with newsmen at the newly-built Nigeria Country Department Office on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the new office, … via...

Nigeria’s power generation as at September 2017 has increased up to 7001 megawatts with transmission up to 6,700 megawatts and distribution rising to 4,600 megawatts. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola speaking at the executive session of the National Council on Power...

As President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration celebrate two years in office, about 2,514mw of electricity cannot be utilised due to 35 idle generation turbines across 15 Generation Companies (GenCos). The causes of the unutilised electricity were traced to non-availability of gas to power...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola spoke on Nigeria’s power sector at the opening ceremony of the Power Nigeria Agenda 2016 held in Lagos yesterday. Here are 5 key points of the Minister’s speech: 1. Fashola faulted the recent statement by the Managing Director...

Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has unveiled a 10-point agenda aimed at reforming the nation’s power sector, DailySun reports. According to Fashola, the agenda include: public engagement, especially around electricity tariffs; collection, payment and debts...