Within 16 months, the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria lost the capacity to pay N484.993 billion of the N1.084 trillion invoices they received for the electricity they received from the power Generation Companies (GenCos) between January 2021 and April…
As Nigerians express high hopes of having a national grid that can deliver 10,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2023, the incessant vandalism of power transmission infrastructure could hamper this target. In this piece, Daily Trust on Sunday chronicles cases…
For years, the 3,050 megawatts (MW) Mambilla hydropower project was only on paper until December 2020 when physical surveys began. But all that has ended as the latest update indicates that surveyors, who have not been paid, have left the…
Cases of shortage of gas and drop in water level have ripped off over 4,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity from the national grid within the first four days of March. Data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) which operates…
The federal government accelerates energy access, at least N7 billion has been released for the deployment of 100,000 units of Solar Home System (SH) under the Solar Power Naija (SPN) scheme. The SPN programme was created as part of the…
New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through estimated billing despite a policy stating that all new connections must be accompanied by meter, an investigation by Daily Trust revealed. The Connection and Disconnection Procedures…
In March this year, the Federal Government said it was set to commission the 10 Megawatts to wind farm sited at Lambar Rimi area of Katsina State. The Minister of Power, Engr Sale Mamman, who announced the development via a…
The multi-billion naira Independent Power Plant (IPP) project in Kano State, which was said to have reached 95 percent completion in July 2020 and scheduled to be commissioned in October of the same year, is yet to see the light…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has conducted a workshop on Fact-Checking and Verification. The workshop, which held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall, began on Monday, May 24, 2021, and ended on Wednesday, May 26,…
Nigerians have continued to pay for the power supply but have not seen enough of that in the past five years, with electricity tariff rising as economic indices worsen. Although the power sector was privatized on November 1, 2013, to…
