New Electricity Tariffs Effective July - Power Minister     The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has insisted that the new increment on electricity tariff would take off in July. He stated this on Tuesday at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector Recovery Plan and the impact...

Nigeria Exported N32bn Worth Of Electricity In 2019 — NERC     The Republics of Togo, Niger and Benin received a total invoice of N32.04bn for the electricity supplied to them from Nigeria in 2019, data from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission have shown. Nigeria, through some of...

Electricity: Consumers To Pay More For Prepaid Meters   Power consumers are going to start paying more for prepaid meters as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has hiked the cost of the commodity. It was gathered in Abuja on Monday that the commission had increased the price...

Buhari Okays Nigeria, Siemens Electricity Deal Funding     President Muhammadu Buhari, has given the nod to a German firm, Siemens AG, to begin the concessionary funding and provision of technical support to the country’s power sector. According to the official twitter handle of the Presidency, @NGRPresident, Buhari...

Ten Power Plants Idle, Generation Drops To 2,627MW   The number of the nation’s power plants sitting idle increased by three on Monday to 10, prompting generation to tumble below 3,000 megawatts. Total power generation in the country fell to 2,626.9MW as of 6am on Monday from...

Nigerian Households Spent N2trn On Electricity, Fuel In 2019 – NBS     Households in Nigeria spent a total of N2.02tn on fuel and electricity in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The NBS said in a new report on consumption expenditure pattern that household expenditure...