Electricity

December 03, (THEWILL) - The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO), National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Mr. Khalil Suleiman Halilu is set to detail the Agency’s plans and strategies for rural electrification in Nigeria using homegrown...

September 19, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has set a target of 20,000 megawatts of power generation in the next three years. THEWILL reports that Nigeria is currently generating 4,000MW of electricity. But speaking on Tuesday, at the Nigeria Energy...

July 20, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives, on Thursday, urged the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to stop the planned increase in electricity tariffs by Distribution Companies (DISCOS) in Nigeria. This followed the adoption of a motion moved at...

June 09, (THEWILL) - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assented to the Electricity Act 2023, which was initially passed by lawmakers in July 2022. The Electricity Act will replace the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA), 2005. The new Electricity...

Electricity workers, under the league of National Association of Electricity Employees (NUEE), have said that they will embark on another strike if their demands are not adequately and timely met by the Federal Government, faulting the privatisation of the...

June 16, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has set a deadline of July 1 for electricity generating companies (GenCos) to attain 5,000 megawatts of power generation. The Chairman, NERC, Sanusi Garba, who gave the directive stated that...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 21, (THEWILL) - The recent disclosure that the Federal Government had been spending a whopping N50 billion monthly to subsidise electricity in the country is quite shameful. The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, had made the...