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Five Years After, DISCOS Still Dancing Disco!
The Discos kept up with the old practice and failed to enumerate its customers to enable it bill them according to…
‘Light Only Comes On During VIP Burials’: Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Gone…
In the first part of these investigative series, The New Diplomat chronicled how derelict power projects have…
SPECIAL REPORT: For Nigeria’s Rural Population, There May Never Be Light!
To Yahaya Masani, living in darkness has a different meaning. Not for the hysterical noise: Up NEPA! –An age-long…
Mokwa’s blackout: A testament of how the poor was sold a dummy
Editor's note: Blackouts have become synonymous with Nigeria’s power sector and many rural poor are suffocating…
Customers indict IKEDC for rights infringement, unwholesome practices
Customers of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC), especially those connected to Ikorodu, Abule-Egba, and…
Niger communities: Suffering in the midst of plenty
Niger State plays host to four hydro-electric power stations, one of which is the Shiroro Hydro-Electric power…
Rural Electrification: Power not yet for the people
Nigeria mini-grids collapse under mega greed as the Rural Electrification Agency and its contractors screw up…
Investigation: How impunity, theft thwart stable electricity in Benin
As the Federal Government, operators, regulators and consumers of electricity continuously engage in the effort to…
Consumers suffer, businesses crumble as DISCOs ‘punish’ residents
In all the years of Adewale Owoeye as a machine fabricator, very few contracts have surpassed the one he got from a…
PHOTOS: Poor Facilities And Maintenance Embedding Nigeria In Darkness – Findings…
Lagos – In effect, this has made everyone a GENco. In each household, or for business owners, the brunt bearer…
PHOTOS: Poor Facilities And Maintenance Embedding Nigeria In Darkness – Findings
Lagos – Going through some of the images captured during a short trip to the just concluded 10th Global…