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Top 5 Stories Of The Day | British Envoy Reveals Only Nigerian PhD Students Can Bring Their Families To The UK

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss. British envoy reveals only Nigerian PhD students can bring their families to the UK The United Kingdom has announced that graduate students from Nigeria and others are no longer permitted to bring any dependents into... Read More

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Bola Tinubu and Olaf Scholz

December 2, 2023

CBN Announces Plan to Freeze Accounts Without BVN and NIN in 2024 | 5 Things That Should Matter Today

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss. Naira depreciates to ₦927.19/$ at the official market On November 30, the naira took a dive of 11.40% from the previously recorded ₦832.32/$ rate at which it was sold at the official market. According to... Read More

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Has power supply improved in Nigeria? Babatunde Fashola says well-meaning Nigerians can testify

Every day, I’m increasingly convinced that Nigerian politicians live in an echo chamber that prevents them from being in tune with reality. From their utterances and actions, it’s all the evidence you need. On Monday at a media parley in his Abuja office, Minister of Power Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola said that well-meaning Nigerians... Read More

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Kaduna communities get two-year uninterrupted power supply – FG

The Federal Government on Tuesday announced that two communities in Kaduna State recently recorded two straight years of uninterrupted supply of electricity. It said the Gnami and Pakau communities enjoyed uninterrupted power from the 90-kilowatt Solar PV off-grid system installed in the areas, as the villages were far from the reach of the national power... Read More

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Power supply can be boosted by 3,056 megawatts – NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Monday said it supplied 689 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, mmscfd, to power plants in March 2017, an equivalent of 3,056 megawatts (MW) of electricity. In a statement in Abuja, the NNPC, on the release of its March 2017 edition of the Monthly Financial and... Read More

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January 10, 2017

Opinion: Will 24 hour power supply ever become a reality in Nigeria?

by Adetayo Adesola A constant burden on my living experience in Nigeria for over 20 years has been the inefficient power supply; I won’t be surprised if this was the case before I was born. As a result of the inefficiency in this sector, Nigerians have resulted in the use of generators to power their homes,... Read More

National Electric Power Authority, nigeria, Power Holding Company of Nigeria, power supply, World Bank

December 18, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Senate to probe N213bn power sector intervention fund | 5 things to know

The power sector is one of the most challenged in the country and the intervention fund worth N213billion was initiated in 2014 to tackle three major challenges in the sector including inadequate gas supply for power generation, the inability of generation companies to produce electricity with reduced volumes of gas and misalignment between electricity tariff... Read More

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Bukola Saraki, CBN, Diezani Alison Madueke, intervention fund, Power sector, power supply, senate, the legislative blog

October 6, 2016

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top five stories you should monitor today. Buhari in possession of letters implicating Jonathan for corruption President Muhammadu Buhari has in his possession letters written by former President Goodluck Jonathan requesting for “off-budget funds”. This startling revelation is contained in Buhari’s authorised biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, written by... Read More

boko haram, Edo governorship election, Goodluck Jonathan, power supply, President Muhammadu Buhari

October 5, 2016

Western powers frustrating Nigeria’s efforts at improving electricity – Adeosun

Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun on Wednesday said western powers are blocking efforts made by Nigeria to improve its power supply. She said this during a discussion on the importance of addressing infrastructure gaps in developing countries at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund General meetings in Washington. She said Europe and other world powers have... Read More

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October 12, 2015

‘Jonathan is the reason power supply improved, not Buhari’

Former Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo says the improvement in power supply was achieved by former President, Goodluck Jonathan and not President Muhammadu Buhari’s body language. Nebo stated that Jonathan did his best to achieve optimum electricity supply and to improve the power sector, but ‘some people did not want him to succeed’. Nebo spoke in Ikole Ekiti on... Read More

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November 4, 2014

President Jonathan’s approval rating drops in new poll

by Ubong Nduonofit The October result of the monthly NOIpolls on governance has seen the ratings of President Goodluck Jonathan drop from the high figures it recorded in the month of September. The latest publication of governance poll results by NOIPolls for the month of October 2014 revealed that a total of 60% of adult Nigerians... Read More

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September 18, 2014

International companies to help Nigeria on epileptic power supply

by Chris Ikechukwu Lafarge Africa, Finland’s Wartsila and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have planned to boost electricity supply in Nigeria with the addition of a 220 MW power plant to Lafarge’s existing 90 MW plant which is used mainly for its cement operations. The proposed gas-fired power plant, whose cost was not disclosed, is... Read More

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September 15, 2014

The latest excuse – Two-metre-long snake puts parts of Benin in darkness

by Azubuike Azikiwe According to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the recent power supply disruption experienced in some parts of Benin City and environs was as a result of a two meter snake, which was trapped in a transformer T23 at the Benin switch yard. The trapped reptile put three feeders, Nekpennekpen, Ikpoba Dam... Read More

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August 19, 2014

Blame it on electricity: Legislator says power problem responsible for WAEC failure (READ)

by Azubuike Azikiwe Chief Yomi Ogunnusi, a member of the House of Representatives, says the epileptic power situation in the country is responsible for the mass failure of students who sat for the 2014 West African Secondary School Certificate, WASSCE. The legislator said the unreliable power supply witnessed in several parts of the nation doesn’t... Read More

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Chinedu Ekeke: This darkness we are shiaring – but isn’t it time to discuss gas?

by Chinedu Ekeke It is doubtful that an institution as big as the Nigerian government will push for a electricity regulatory laws aimed at clearing the way for private sector participation in generation and distribution, without first seeking to find out what obtains in other countries where similar laws have long been operative. Last... Read More

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Simon Kolawole: Nigeria’s GDP rebasing – No, we haven’t arrived yet

by Simon Kolawole Good news. Nigeria now houses the largest economy in Africa. We achieved this by simple arithmetic we changed the base year of measuring our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1990 to 2010. That means we have included new sectors that were previously not captured in the calculations. Trust me, a lot has... Read More

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October 7, 2013

Collins Uma: The Nigerian critic (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma This is the anatomy of the Nigerian critic. He is headed for doom who waits for the approval of these critics before embarking on a project. On Monday, September 30 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan handed over licences to the new generating and distributing companies (GENCOs and DISCOs), an action which was not only... Read More

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