Five West Africa Countries have topped the energy access status in the ECOWAS region with their population having access to electricity, the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) says. Mr Mahama Kappiah, Executive Director, ECREEE, disclosed this during his presentation at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament on […]

A group, ‘Electricity Consumer Protection Forum’ has called for the speedy passage of the bill seeking to criminalise estimated billings by Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) in the country. Its National Coordinator, Mr Adeola Samuel-Ilori, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. Samuel-Ilori was reacting to […]

THERE are indications that inadequate and unstable power supply may have adversely affected small-scale businesses, thus creating more unemployment and poverty in Nigeria.

Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The foreign investors in Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), CEC Africa Investment Limited, have cried over alleged plot by a “powerful cabal” to edge them out of the company. CEC Africa and Xerxes Global Investments Limited formed a Special Purpose Vehicle called KANN Utility Company Limited, a consortium that bought […]

National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has insisted that there is  no going back on members plan to down tools and commence indefinite industrial action over unresolved labour issues including alleged refusal by some Distribution Companies in Nigeria, DISCOs to remit deducted contributory pension fund to workers’ Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs.