Nigeria Mulls Supplying Electricity To Chad       The Federal Government is considering supplying electricity to the Republic of Chad following a recent request by the neighbouring country. The government-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria disclosed on Sunday that a meeting was held last week to discuss the possibilities...

2021 Budget: MDAs To Get N20bn For Electricity, Local Contractors       The Federal Government plans to settle the electricity bills of its ministries, departments and agencies with N5bn and offset the debts of local contractors with N15bn in 2021. It also plans to settle ex-workers of the...

Budget 2021: FG Earmarks N152bn For Electricity       The Federal Government is to pay power generation companies through Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading, NBET, the sum of N152.416 billion in 2021. According to details of the 2021 budget now before National Assembly, this forms one of the largest...

REA Seeks $2bn To Power 80 million Rural Dwellers         The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) on Wednesday said over $2bn was required to power 80 million Nigerians who currently lack electricity and reside mostly in rural areas across the country. REA’s Managing Director, Malam Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad,...

TCN, Discos Hindering 4,000MW Generation Daily - Gencos       The quantum of electricity generated in Nigeria is rejected or forced to be reduced by an average of 4,210 megawatts daily due to transmission and distribution constraints, power generation companies said on Monday. In a document obtained in...

In 2019, Gencos Generated 33,448,633MWh - NBS       A total of 33,448,633 megawatts-hour of energy was generated by power generation stations across the country in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. This came as power distributors again said on Tuesday that the Nigerian Electricity...