Residents of Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday, stormed the Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JEDC, over high electricity tariff, fake metres and other perceived “gross injustices” meted on consumers in the state.

THE Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, yesterday, threw his weight behind popular resistance to estimated electricity bills not conforming to services delivered by the Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.

Amidst complaints of recession, hostile business environment and lack of foreign exchange, an indigenous Nigerian company has promised to give Nigerians 24 hours a day, seven days a week electricity supply.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that the nation’s power generation capacity dropped from 3,959 megawatts on Jan. 4 to 2,662 megawatts on Jan. 22.

NIGERIA electricity sector recorded zero power supply across the country, yesterday evening at 6.0 pm, due to total system collapse, with average power generation crashing to 1, 618 megawatts hour (MWh), down from 2, 904 MWh generated just before the system collapsed dropping generation to zero megawatts.

THE nation’s contentious power sector lost an estimated N10,331,000,000 in eight days, between Saturday, January 7 and Saturday, January 14, 2017, due to gas and water constraints, daily operational report of the Nigerian Electricity System Operation obtained by Vanguard stated.

AT LEAST 12 Flow, Compressor and Pumping Stations in OML 30, Delta State, were crippled, this morning (Tuesday), following an industrial action by about 180 workers, who left the stations unmanned due non –payment of salaries, emoluments and other allied matters.

THERE is hope of improved power supply in 2017, as Aba, Abia State-based Geometric Power stated that it is working in partnership with foreign firms to generate 1,140 megawatts to boost power supply to the South-east geo-political zone of the country.

NATIONAL Rural Electrification Agency, NREA, has been allocated a total sum of N16,137,871,005 in the 2017 fiscal proposal of the Ministry of works, Power and Housing.

The power sector lost an estimated N1.578 billion as at January 7, 2017 due to gas and water constraints, daily operational report of the Nigerian Electricity System Operation obtained by Vanguard stated.

Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, yesterday wheeled out about 4,009 megawatts of generated electricity to 11 distribution companies, creating an indication that the country’s power supply is gradually stabilising.

The blame game in the power sector has come to the fore again as Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) claimed that Distribution Companies, DISCOs 30 percent remittances on monthly invoices is responsible for the current poor state of the country’s electricity services.

The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to stop plans to raise a N309 billion bond to finance electricity generation in the country to erase recorded shortfall in projected power availability.

Kano Electricity Distribution Company Plc, KEDCO, has said it lost equipment valued at N108,831,550 to vandals in its franchise area over the past six weeks.

Nollywood actor turned politician, Desmond Elliot who is the Lawmaker representing Surulere 1 constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Eliot, has told the people of his constituency that he is not Power Holding Company to fix and provide electricity for them.