Browsing: Electricity

Workers have stormed various offices of electricity distribution companies to protest over the Band A tariff hike. The workers, under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, thronged the offices of the DisCos on Monday, preventing workers from resuming work for the day. In Lagos, the workers were sighted at […]

Muniru Balogun, the father of the highly successful musician Ayodeji, who is popularly known as Wizkid, claimed to have solved the electricity issue in the Alaba area in Ajegunle, a commercial community in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State. Wizkid's father stated that he went to the defunct National Electric Power Authority in 1972 to reach […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has restructured the Transmission Company of Nigeria by creating the Nigerian Independent System Operator of Nigeria Limited. This change was made public in a directive signed by the Chairman of the commission, Mr Sanusi Garba, and Vice Chairman, Mr Muslim Oseni, in Abuja on Saturday. This is happening nearly four years […]

Stakeholders in the environment have called on state legislative assemblies, particularly in the Niger Delta region, to create rules that would allow individuals to generate electricity using methane, and possibly sell it to the national grid. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Environmental Centre for Oil Spills and Gas Flaring, […]

A strong rainstorm on Sunday caused great damage in Sango-Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, leading to more than 40 communities losing electricity. The storm brought down electricity poles and cables, causing traffic disruption on the Sango-Ota highway on Sunday afternoon. The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company verified the incident and urged residents to stay away from the broken poles and cables.

The Niger State Commissioner for Power and Renewable Energy, Bashir Yerima, stated that all the Electricity Distribution Companies in Nigeria have let down the people. The Federal Government had instructed the distribution companies to produce, distribute and transmit electricity to all areas of the country after the National Electrical Power Authority did not fulfill its responsibility.

Manufacturers and organised Labour have kicked against the Federal Government’s 240 per cent hike in the tariff payable by electricity users enjoying a 20-hour power supply. They insisted on the electricity subsidy, warning that its removal would send manufacturers out of business and worsen inflation. The subsidy on electricity has been withdrawn completely from the […]

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State says his administration will generate and distribute electricity in the state by the end of 2026. Mbah unveiled the plans of his government to tackle the challenges of epileptic power supply to businesses and residents of the state on Saturday at a town hall meeting with various stakeholders. He […]

Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah says his administration will generate and distribute electricity in the state by the end of 2026. Mbah unveiled the plans to tackle the challenges of epileptic power supply to businesses and residents of the state on Saturday at a town hall meeting with various stakeholders. According to him, the State […]

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force Supply Depot in Ohio was looking for a faster way to store and fetch information from its sizable inventory. They had 50,000 items in their records and wanted instant access to each one of them. The dominant storage technologies of the time—punch cards, magnetic tape and magnetic […]