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Estimated billing: New customers pay millions, as DisCos flout metering policy
New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through…
Biz in tears as Ariaria traders blow N1bn on generators, bills
Dependence on crude kerosene-fuelled heating stoves and hundreds of loud generators due to epileptic power supply…
MDAs’ debts to Discos worsen financial stability for power sector
Discos debts To Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) now N500 billion
Discos transfer burdens to…
SPECIAL REPORT: Why Nigeria’s electricity woes will remain despite Siemens’…
In July last year, the mood of Nigerians was livened up, then some fresh hope followed. President Muhammadu Buhari…
Mokwa community now connected to the grid, enjoy steady power supply weeks after…
Mokwa community in Niger state has now been connected to the grid
The community had been in darkness since…
INVESTIGATION: FG’s N3.4bn solar power grids rot in Abuja, Kaduna
Adamu Ibrahim operates a provision shop in Durumi-Mpape, near Maitama in Abuja. His shop was one of those that…
INVESTIGATION: Despite acquiring $1.3bn DisCos, investors shift meter, transformer…
Six years ago, the Federal Government unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and handed over 18…
How electricity companies fleece Nigerians in service charges, despite assurance…
In April 2017, Aliyu Umar, 27, began his day at dawn. He started by carefully preparing charcoal fire with which he…
Nigeria’s power grid records 206 collapses in 9 years
Nigerians woke up on Wednesday, May 8, to a nationwide outage that cut off power from many homes and factories,…
System collapse: TCN to maintain Calabar, other power lines
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is shopping for contractors within the next 42 days to maintain two of…
INVESTIGATION: Jonathan/Buhari administrations spent another N1.164 trillion on…
Nigerian Government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country remained…
SPECIAL REPORT: For Nigeria, darkness has great cost: trillions of naira and over…
Oilfields across the resource-abundant Niger Delta spew flames day and night, fired by gas associated with oil…
Electricity back in Niger community, one year after
After twelve months of living in darkness without any intervention from government, the people of Nkangbe community…